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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Hekaba 342-388
Polyxena: I see you, Odysseus, under your garment your right hand hidden and your face turned back, lest I touch your beard. Take heart: you have avoided Zeus of Suppliants concerning me; since I will follow both because I am … Continue reading
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Eumenides 94-197
Ghost of Clytemestra: Oh, you sleep do you? Hello! And what need is there of sleepers? And I, because of you, remain dishonoured here among the other corpses—those whom I killed their rebuke is not abandoned among the dead, and … Continue reading
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Hekaba 296-341
Choros: No man has a nature so stern, which could hear the dirge of your weeping and wailing aloud, and not cast tears. Odysseus: Hekaba, be instructed, and do not, in the anger, of your heart make hostile words well … Continue reading
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Annals of Tacitus Book I: VII-VIII
VII. But, in fact, the consuls of Rome fell to servitude, and the patricians, and the equestrians, too. By however much a man was illustrious, by that much more he deceived and they hastened, with composed countenance, so as not … Continue reading
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Eumenides 1-93
Pythia: First, I give in my prayer precedence to her of the gods first of oracles, Gaia; and after her Themis, who sits second only to her mother as prophet, so the goes the tale, and in the third allotment, … Continue reading
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Annals of Tacitus, Book I:IV-VI
IV. Therefore, since the condition of the state was overturned, there was nothing anywhere of an old-fashioned and wholesome character: everyone, once equality was despoiled, looked to the commands of the Prince, in no dread at present, so long as … Continue reading
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Hekaba 218-295
Odysseus: Lady, I expect that you know the will of the army, and the ballot brought to pass; but I shall nevertheless declare it. It is resolved by the Achaians that your child Polyxena be slaughtered upon the raised mound … Continue reading
Hekaba 177-217
Polyxena: I come; Mother, mother, why are you shouting? For what news heralded do you from my domicile like a bird in startled fright so alarm me? Hekaba: Oh child, oh woe! Polyxena: Why such ill-omened words for me? An … Continue reading
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Hekaba 154-176
Hekaba: Oh woe, I am miserable, whatever shall I utter? What resound, what lament, I am abject from abject old age, from slavery unendurable, unbearable? Oh woe is me. Who defends me? What race, what city? My elder vanished, my … Continue reading
Annals of Tacitus, Book I:I-III
I haven’t received a full list of what we will cover in Roman Historians, but the first assignment was the first three chapters of the Annals of Tacitus. I. At the beginning, kings held the Roman city; L. Brutus instituted … Continue reading
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