onesicritus造句

• The philosopher Onesicritus investigated their beliefs and lifestyle.
• It was Onesicritus, whom Alexander first sent to summon Dandamis to his court.
• Arrian states, with Onesicritus as his source, that Bucephalus died at the age of thirty.
• When later Onesicritus returned empty-handed with the reply of Dandamis, the King went to forest to visit Dandamis.
• Sources of information include Aristobulus of Cassandreia, Cleitarchus, Onesicritus and Nearchus, but it is not clear that he used these directly.
• Several philosophers, such as Pyrrho, Anaxarchus and Onesicritus, are said to have been selected by Alexander to accompany him in his eastern campaigns.
• One of Alexander's companion was Onesicritus, quoted in Book 15, Sections 63-65 by Strabo, who describes yogins of India.
• Onesicritus held this position not only during the descent of the Indus, but throughout the long and perilous voyage from the river to the Persian gulf.
• Onesicritus claims those Indian yogins ( " Mandanis " ) practiced aloofness and " different postures  standing or sitting or lying naked  and motionless ".
• Alexander was so satisfied with his work that, on his arrival at Susa, Onesicritus was rewarded with a crown of gold, at the same time as Nearchus.
• When Alexander constructed his fleet on the Hydaspes, he appointed Onesicritus to the important position of pilot of the king's ship, or chief pilot of the fleet ( ).
• Deimachus holds the first place in the list, Megasthenes comes next, while Onesicritus and Nearchus, with others of the same class, manage to stammer out a few words [ of truth ].
• Onesicritus also mentions his colleague " Calanus " trying to meet them, who is initially denied audience, but later invited because he was sent by a " king curious of wisdom and philosophy ".
• He mentions fourteen authors, some of whom believed the story ( Onesicritus, Cleitarchus ), while others took it to be only fiction ( Aristobulus of Cassandreia, Chares of Mytilene, Ptolemy I of Egypt, Duris of Samos ).
• Plutarch also mentions when Alexander's secondary naval commander, Onesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimachus of Thrace who was on the original expedition, the king smiled at him and said " And where was I, then ?"
• In his writing he makes mention of a moment when Alexander's secondary naval commander, Onesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimachus of Thrace who was on the original expedition : the king smiled at him and said " And where was I, then ?"
• Greek writer Strabo, quoting Eratosthenes and Onesicritus notes the island's proximity to the southern most regions of India, next to the country of the " " Koniakoi " people, " found south up to a coastal promontory on an eastern limit, and describes the island as extending towards Ethiopia and being home to elephants.
• Another of these philosophers, Onesicritus, a Cynic, is said by Strabo to have learnt in India the following precepts : " That nothing that happens to a man is bad or good, opinions being merely dreams . . . . That the best philosophy [ is ] that which liberates the mind from [ both ] pleasure and grief ".
• Onesicritus and Calanus learn that the yogins consider the best doctrine of life as " rid the spirit of not only pain, but also pleasure ", that " man trains the body for toil in order that his opinions may be strengthened ", that " there is no shame in life on frugal fare ", and that " the best place to inhabit is one with scantiest equipment or outfit ".
• A quantity of the more legendary material coalesced into a text known as the " Alexander Romance ", the basis of all the Alexander legends of the Middle Ages, originated during the time of the Ptolemies, but in its present form belongs to the 3rd century AD . Its author is usually known as "'pseudo-Callisthenes "', although in the Latin translation by Julius Valerius Alexander Polemius ( beginning of the 4th century ) it is ascribed to a certain Aesopus; Aristotle, Antisthenes, Onesicritus and Arrian have also been credited with the authorship.