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" The Athenians placed so much confidence in his integrity, that they deposited the keys of their citadel in his hands, and decreed him a golden crown and a statue. He is said to have come rich into Greece, but he lived with great simplicity and abstemiousness;... "
A General Biographical Dictionary: Containing Lives of the Most Eminent ... - Page 353
by Edmund Bellchambers - 1835
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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the ..., Volume 10

John Aikin - 1815 - 506 pages
...at table, though the great were frequently his guests. In other pleasures he was equally continent ; and the modesty of his disposition led him to shun crowds and personal distinction. Zeno was tall and slender, with a severe aspect, and a contracted brow. His constitution...
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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 13

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1833 - 614 pages
...his integrity, that they deposited the keys of their citadel in his hands, and decreed him a golden crown and a statue. He is said to have come rich into...he lived with great simplicity and abstemiousness; ana the modesty of his disposition led him to shun crowds and personal distinctions. He reached the...
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Encyclopędia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 13

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1833 - 570 pages
...his integrity, that they deposited the keys of their citadel in his hands, and decreed him a golden crown and a statue. He is said to have come rich into...depart, and, repeating from the tragedy of Niobe, " Here I am ; why do you call me ?" went home and strangled himself on the principle that a man was at liberty...
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Encyclopędia Americana, ed. by F. Lieber assisted by E. Wigglesworth (and T ...

Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...his integrity, that they deposited the keys of their citadel in his hands, and decreed him a golden crown and a statue. He is said to have come rich into...personal distinctions. He reached the advanced age of ninety -eight, when, hurting one of his fingers in a fall, he interpreted the accident into a warning...
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Encyclopędia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 13

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 546 pages
...his integrity, that they deposited the keys of their citadel in his hands, and decreed him a golden crown and a statue. He is said to have come rich into...he lived with great simplicity and abstemiousness; nnd the modesty of his disposition led him to slum crowds and personal distinctions. He reached the...
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Encyclopędia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 13

Francis Lieber - 1851 - 544 pages
...his integrity, that they deposited the keys of their citadel in his hands, and decreed him a golden crown and a statue. He is said to have come rich into...depart, and, repeating from the tragedy of Niobe, " Here I am ; why do you call me ?" went home and strangled himself, on the principle that a man was at liberty...
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A General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 4

John Gorton - 1851 - 690 pages
...his integrity, that they deposited the keys of their citadel in his hands, and decreed him a golden crown and a statue. He is said to have come rich into...his disposition led him to shun crowds and personal distinction«. He reached tlie advanced age of ninety-eight; when hurting чпе of his finger« in...
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