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forelock a lock of hair growing just above the forehead.
take time by the forelock seize an opportunity. The Latin fabulist Phaedrus described Opportunity or Occasion as being bald except for a long forelock, a personification that was illustrated in Renaissance emblem books and was also applied to Time.
touch one's forelock indicate respect or deference. From the action of raising a hand to one's forehead in deference when meeting a person of higher social rank (also
tug one's forelock).
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Rhetoric and Reality in Plato's Phaedrus.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...A. Rhetoric and Reality in Plato's Phaedrus. Albany: State University of New York...several full-length studies of Plato's Phaedrus (by Burger, Griswold, and Ferrari...and Nussbaum, for instance) but the Phaedrus still has much to offer and David White...
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McObject & Phaedrus Systems Alliance Targets Fail-Safe Embedded Systems.
News Wire article from: PRWeb; 7/7/2009; 700+ words
; ...DBMSs), announced an alliance with UK-based Phaedrus Systems Limited in which Phaedrus will resell and provide services surrounding...expertise and compelling product offerings. Phaedrus, based in the UK, specializes in supporting...
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New Drug Associates, Inc. Changes Name to Phaedrus Pharmaceuticals.
PR Newswire; 9/23/2002; 589 words
; ...that it has changed the company name to Phaedrus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The name change...accurately reflect the company's mission. Phaedrus, a character in Plato's dialogue...Motorcycle Maintenance. In the book, Phaedrus was dedicated to identifying the characteristics...
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'Phaedrus.' (The Rhetoric of Jacques Derrida, part 2)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...principle in Derrida's reading of Plato's Phaedrus.(2) This will illuminate the problematic...of art: rhetoric. The latter, says Phaedrus, has "escaped our notice," and Socrates...should be discussed (266c8-d4). Here Phaedrus comments, "No doubt, what is written...
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Two chariots: the justification of the best life in the Katha Upanishad and Plato's Phaedrus.
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...As has often been noted, Plato's Phaedrus provides a striking corollary to the...similarities between the Katha Upanishad and the Phaedrus certainly give rise to a great many tantalizing...about the individual. Thus, as the Phaedrus and the Katha Upanishad each provide...
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Plato on love; Lysis, Symposium, Phaedrus, Alcibiades, with selections from Republic and Laws.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 479 words
; 0872207897 Plato on love; Lysis, Symposium, Phaedrus, Alcibiades, with selections from Republic and Laws. Plato. Ed. by C.D.C. Reeve. Hackett Publishing Co. 2006 226 pages...
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Straight to the source: using Phaedrus and La Fontaine to retranslate fable V, 25, of Felix Maria Samaniego.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Salvaging Literary Models in Translation Andre Lefevere describes the translation of rhymed, metrical poetry into target-language rhyme and meter as a "double bondage," and dismisses the enterprise as "doomed to failure from the start" in his prescriptive study, Translating Poetry: Seven Strategies
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From `Motorcycle Maintenance' to morality
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/4/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...in "Lila," narrated by "Zen's" Phaedrus, is the same mania, to use the author...abyss. A successful author this time, Phaedrus is traveling by boat, via old trade...berthed in a small channel of the Hudson, Phaedrus enters a bar one night and meets Lila...
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Rhoades, James M. Eros, Wisdom, and Silence: Plato's Erotic Dialogues.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...an analysis of Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus. A second volume on the Republic and...his analysis of the Symposium and the Phaedrus constitute the bulk of this work. But...commentary, also in three chapters, on the Phaedrus. Both dialogues are construed as political...
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Human discourse, eros, and madness in Plato's Republic.(relation between human discursive activity and the intelligible realm)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...association of eros and madness we find in the Phaedrus. Moreover, the assessment of eros as...contradiction to Socrates' claim in the Phaedrus that eros is "a god, or something divine...the Republic, the Symposium, and the Phaedrus contain not only, in general, strikingly...
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Phaedrus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Phaedrus The personal history of Phaedrus (15 BC-50 AD), a first century Roman writer, has been...meaning and is intended to teach a moral lesson. Role as Fabulist Phaedrus, a first century Roman writer, is recognized as the source...
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Pirsig, Robert M(aynard)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...x2010;country trip of the narrator Phaedrus with his young son. Interspersed in...Morals (1991). The narrative concerns Phaedrus on a sailboat trip around America and...with a woman picked up on the voyage. Phaedrus formulates a metaphysics of quality...
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Hippocrates of Cos
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...with an example from Plato ’ s Phaedrus (268c-d) in which Eryximacus and...dialogue only because of their intimacy with Phaedrus, Socrates ’ interlocutor...juxtaposition exists in the passage from Phaedrus . Some fifty years later, Aristotle...
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Fairy Tales and Fables
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...stories that illustrate a particular moral or argument), but Phaedrus strengthened their didactic elements in order to produce a...and English (1734) and Daniel Bellamy's translation of Phaedrus's Fifty Instructive and Entertaining Fables (1734, 1753...
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forelock
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...forelock a lock of hair growing just above the forehead. take time by the forelock seize an opportunity. The Latin fabulist Phaedrus described Opportunity or Occasion as being bald except for a long forelock, a personification that was illustrated in Renaissance...
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