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583:(1871), Chapter 14 is entitled "Damon and Pythias". This is a reference to two of the characters, Nat and Dan. Early in the book, Nat is responsible for introducing Dan to the school which is the setting of the novel. Later, when Nat is falsely accused of theft, Dan stands by him and then later takes responsibility for the theft himself, saying that he could bear the mistrust and anger of the other boys more easily than his weaker friend. In fact, neither boy is guilty, and they are later cleared of involvement.
771:). Billy becomes a train robber, Chuck a sheriff. But they end up joining forces against common enemies in a final SHOWDOWN. A series of life circumstances put two close childhood friends pitted against each other. The seemingly inevitable ending takes a twist that allows the friendship to continue after Billy commits an act of bravery that he knows is suicidal but saves Chuck's life. Kate (Susan Clark) refers to Chuck and Billy's friendship as that of Damon and Pythias.
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163:. Pythias requests of Dionysius to be allowed to settle his affairs. Dionysius agrees, on the condition that Pythias' friend, Damon, be held hostage and, should Pythias not return, be executed in his stead. When Pythias returns, Dionysius, amazed by the love and trust in their friendship, frees them both.
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Accepting his sentence, Pythias asked to be allowed to return home one last time to settle his affairs and bid his family farewell. Not wanting to be taken for a fool, the king refused, believing that, once released, Pythias would flee and never return. Damon offered himself as a hostage in
Pythias'
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Another version says that it was a test planned by the king and his courtiers. The
Pythagoreans were renowned for their moral strength and superiority, but some Syracusan courtiers argued the claim was false, and others disagreed, so with their king they devised a test—a crisis that would show
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Apologizing to his friend for the delay, Pythias explained that on the passage back to
Syracuse, pirates had captured his ship and had thrown him overboard, but that he had swum to shore and made his way back to Syracuse as quickly as possible, arriving just in time to save his friend.
444:), a soldier of fortune, promise to deliver holy manuscripts from Gandhara while Ensai, a monk who freed him from slavery at the beginning of the film, offers to be executed in his place. Osumi succeeds and the king calls off the execution when he sees how selfless the man is.
532:"We had", was the reply. "But it is more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in the mind... Such unscientific balderdash", said the doctor, flushing suddenly purple, "would have estranged Damon and Pythias".
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by Alfred J. Cohen (pen name: Alan Dale) has a young gay couple continually referring to themselves as Damon and
Pythias. Soon the upscale social world that they try pass in begins to refer to them with the same term, but as derogatory codeword for 'gay
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tells his Aunt Dahlia that at Oxford, his friendship with Ginger
Winship was comparable to that of Damon and Pythias. It is not the author's only usage of the reference, as it crops up when introducing the central characters of his 1919 story
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episode, Beaver's father relates the Damon and
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411:). As released, the film only vaguely resembles the legend — Pythias avoids jail — but intends instead to be a testament to the
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This little spirit of temper was somewhat of a relief to Mr. Utterson. "They have only differed on some point of science", he thought...
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696:, "Friendship", Ward Cleaver uses it as a reference to his sons, due to Beaver having an argument with his friend Larry Modello.
609:, Captain Purvis's and Mayor Joppolo's friendship is compared to the friendship of Damon and Pythias because they dated sisters.
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Collins, Rutgers University Press, 1958; reprinted 2002, 2009 by University Press of Mississippi, pp. xi-xxxv.
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