Stories from HerodotusJ. Burns, 1847 - 278 páginas |
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Página 2 - This Periander had a master of his minstrelsy, by name Arion, whose wild and passionate hymns were a marvel to all who heard them. But Arion was not content to stay always with his master at Corinth ; for he thought: "A poet should see and know many things, if he would be esteemed for his noble songs." So he resolved to go to Italy and Sicily ; for there were many notable cities in these lands, inhabited by settlers of the Grecian tongue. And there the wise Pythagoras had given lessons of wisdom...
Página 105 - ... Goddesses'. And yet (though never so divine) Before we boast, unjustly still, of her enforced prize, And justly suffer for her sake, with all our progenies, Labour and ruin, let her go ; the profit of our land Must pass the beauty.
Página 105 - The gods than beauty; for thus spake the most fam'd king of Troy: 'Come, loved daughter, sit by me, and take the worthy joy Of thy first husband's sight, old friends and Princes near allied; And name me some of these brave Greeks, so manly beautified.
Página 85 - With physic's sovereign remedies) to come and lend his hand To Menelaus, shot by one well-skill'd in the command Of bow and arrows, one of Troy, or of the Lycian aid, Who much hath glorified our foe, and us as much dismay'd.
Página 1 - ALYATTES, the king of Lydia, had gone every year to war with Miletus. But the men of Miletus took counsel with Periander, the king of the wealthy Corinth, and through his counsels they obtained peace. For they made a show of revelry and feasting, and so deceived the Lydian heralds ; though indeed they were so sore bested, that two cotyls of corn had, for a long time, been all that any man had for his day's provisions. So Alyattes thought, " These Milesians have store of food ; and their city adjoins...