How To Use Gymnosophist In A Sentence
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Then returning to Alexandria he made his way to Ethiopia to see the gymnosophists and the famous table of the sun spread in the sands of the desert.
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He accompanied Alexander the Great on his conquest of northern India, where he encountered Indian gymnosophists or naked wise men.
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One lineage of the family, apart from the second brother who was a blind snake-charmer, died out when, after migrating to the Punjab, they became sacred but doomed gymnosophists and crystal-eaters.
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The third-century heresy-hunter Hippolytus included naked gymnosophists among the philosophers whose ideas threatened the true faith.
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Following these initial contacts, tales of the holy men of India, known to the Greeks as ‘gymnosophists’, began to circulate in the Hellenic world.
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As Walter lay awake for a few quiet moments before he sent his thoughts to rest, he glanced critically, like an Indian gymnosophist, over the occurrences of the day.
St. Winifred's, or The World of School
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Then the gymnosophist asked, “What are you doing?” and Alexander said, “I am conquering the world.”
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West
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You listen and listen for some noise to break the silence, till you grow half mesmerised by the intensity of the strain; your sense of your own identity is troubled; your brain reels, like that of some gymnosophist poring on his own nose in Asiatic jungles; and should you see your own outspread feet, you see them, not as anything of yours, but as a feature of the scene around you.
Essays of Travel
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After Apollonius has recognized a lion as a reincarnation of Egypt's last pharaoh Amasis, he sets out in the company of ten disciples for the Ethiopian gymnosophists.
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“Not so, O king,” replied the gymnosophist, “unless you said falsely that he should die first who made the worst answer.”
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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There was a probable purpose in his writing: to propagandize for the gentle philosophy of the gymnosophists, an obscure ascetic Hindu sect, and to proclaim the humanity, culture and martial skill of the dark-skinned Ethiopians.
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The episode of Alexander's interview with the gymnosophists has come down to us in several versions, among which the one in Plutarch's Vita Alexandri is the most renowned.
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As that gymnosophist in [1571] Plutarch made answer to Alexander
Anatomy of Melancholy
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But there is this about some women, which overtops the best gymnosophist among men, that they suffice themselves, and can walk in a high and cold zone without the countenance of any trousered being.
The Pocket R.L.S., being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson
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There he is said to have encountered the ‘gymnosophists’ and ‘magi’ who were thought to have influenced his later philosophical views.
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Among others to take a keen interest in the gymnosophists was Pyrrho, founder of the philosophical school known as the Sceptics.
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[691-1] Pilpay is supposed to have been a Brahmin gymnosophist, and to have lived several centuries before Christ.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
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But there is this about some women, which overtops the best gymnosophist among men, that they suffice to themselves, and can walk in a high and cold zone without the countenance of any trousered being.
An Inland Voyage