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Macaroon Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

What does this sentence means?

"He ate when his disciples asked him to honor their tables; they must have liked his company, for he gave every indication of physiological prosperity."

This sentence is describing Socrates. I'm having confusion with this sentence: " for he gave every indication of physiological prosperity."
I don't quite understand why his disciples liked his company.
  

Top answer

It's a strange sentence. Where did you find it? I think the writer is trying somehow to be amusing.

— Clive

  • It's a strange sentence.
  • Where did you find it?
  • I think the writer is trying somehow to be amusing.
  • Clive
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It's a strange sentence. Where did you find it?
I think the writer is trying somehow to be amusing.

Clive
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I found it from The story of Philosophy by Will Durant.

I'm also confused with this sentence, "The Sophists(the traveling teachers of wisdom) had destroyed the faith thees youths had once had in the gods and goddesses of Olympus, and in the moral code that had taken its sanction so largely from the fea
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Youths and men feared these many gods and goddesses whom they thought were everywhere.
The youths and men had a moral code.
This code was based on fear of the gods and goddesses.

Clive
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So what does sanction mean in this sentence?
Does it mean official permission or punishment?
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Its authority.

Clive
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