A genus of grasses with broad leaves and a dense spike of flowers.
1Then Phalaris motioned for a particular girl and youth to approach him.
2The epistles of Cicero were fine, and so were those of Phalaris.
3In the centre. Phalaris was large and sullen, with a pursed mouth.
4The sheath-like cotyledons of Phalaris Canariensis are extremely sensitive to apogeotropism.
5They halted before Phalaris and gave him a parody of the imperial salute.
6With a gesture quite as majestic as any of Constantius's, Phalaris acknowledged the salute.
7People who had never heard of the Epistles of Phalaris began to inquire about them.
8These epistles give a further reason to believe, that the others were written by Phalaris.
9Such was the message of Phalaris; and his statement is in strict accordance with the facts.
10A pot with seedlings of Phalaris was covered
11Phalaris then turned to the boy and lifted up his tunic as far as the belly.
12Phalaris, that was inexorable to all other enemies, relented at the charms of Stesichorus his muse.
13Suddenly Phalaris reached up and tore the girl's dress at the shoulder; it fell to her knees.
14As he came near, behold two heroes of the Ancient army, Phalaris and Æsop, lay fast asleep.
15On behalf of the Ancients, stress was laid by Temple on the letters of Phalaris, tyrant of Agrigentum.
16183; but more striking instances were occasionally observed with Beta, Brassica, and Phalaris.
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