230 Quotes About Willis-barnstone

The tyrant's craze for absolute power will soondemolish his country. Already the earth trembles.

I who lie here, Brotachos of Gortyn, was born in Krete,and I did not come here for death but weighty business.

Take a hard look at scrawny Diokleia.She's a skinny Aphrodite but sweet.''Then nothing will stand between us;when I lie on her skinny breastsI'll be pressing right against her heart.

The gold booty of Gyges means nothing to me.I don't envy that Lydian king, nor am I jealous of what gods can do, nor of the tyrants' greatpowers. All these are realms beyond my vision.

The calm sea falls dumbly on the shoreamong a tangle of seaweed.

Didyme plunders me with her beauty.When I look at her I am wax over fire.If she's black, what if it? So are coals.When kindled, they glow like blooming roses.

Didyme plunders me with her beauty.When I look at her I am wax over fire.If she's black, what of it? So are coals.When kindled, they glow like blooming roses.

They brought me word of your death,Heraklieitos, and I wept for youremembering how often we watched the sunsetting as we talked.Dear Halikarnassian friend,you lie elsewhere nowand are mere ashes;yet your songs—your nightingales—will live,and never will the underworld,destroying everything,touch them with its deadly hand.

Come with me now and leave the land ofPelops, mighty sons of Zeus and Leda,and in kindness spread your light on us,Kastor and Polydeukes.You who wander above the long earthand over all the seas on swift horses,easily delivering mariners from pitiful death,fly to the masthead of our swift ship,and gazing over foremast and forstays,light a clear path through the midnight gloomfor our black vessel.