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Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.
His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.
IOU one Roman praetor.
She will be returned safely.
Sit tight.
Otherwise you'll be killed.
XOX, the Hunters of Artemis.
but for mine own part, it was Greek to me.
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
LATE ONE NIGHT in early October 1913, William Yale lay in his tent in the mountains of Anatolia, struck by a sense of wonder at how quickly a life could change. Just three weeks earlier he had been living in
Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
ceasing. 1 THESSALONIANS
Sasanian monarchy and the fabled Kayanid
A language Older Than Words
Visigothic kings
of the ancient cities of Greece and
Coasted up the Adriatic, its shores swimming in an atmosphere of amber, rose, and aquamarine; we lay in wide land-locked harbours, we roamed through ancient and noble cities,
A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean
Egyptians developed an accurate calendar with 365 days in a year. In
Part of the myth of Persian benevolence is the idea of an end to the exile in 539. But all that was ended was Neo-Babylonian hegemony, to be replaced by that of the Persians. (p. 65)
The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what the well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration.
Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied ...
The original Upper Paleolithic people would, if they appeared among us today, be called Caucasoid, in the sense that they lacked the particular traits we associate with Negroid and Mongoloid types.
These Atlantikoinonia. They're human? (Acheron)
What else would they be? Turnips? (Tory)
In the year 540 B.C. or thereabouts, on the island of Samos, there came to power a tyrant named Polycrates. He seems to have started as a caterer and then gone on to international piracy.
Food of Acheron. (Grave.)
[Lat., Pabulum Acheruntis.]
I met a travler from an ancient land.
The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.
Persia is 7,000 years old and will fight to survive.
Chadwickius frenemus,
Lat, urbes constituit aetas: hora dissolvit: momento fit cinis: diu sylva.
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.
The mongrel tongue of Slaver's Bay, an ugly blend of Old Ghiscari and High Valyrian.
Old Time the clock-setter.
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
Christopher Columbus
Speramus meliora; resurgret cineribus. We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes,
Weber sandstone a billion years old. This rock was Precambrian, I read, a term like postmodern, suggesting that what it names is so mysterious as to require identification by what it isn't.
The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.
Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.
Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.
As far as Aricimboldi was concerned, Isou was a 'Romanian fuck-stick.
In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity.
Civilisation never dies, it may change, but it is eternal. Where the paddy field is born on the dry river bed of Titash, there begins another civilisation.
The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow.
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.
TITUS. Hail, Rome, victorious in thy mourning weeds!
All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient Greeks.
I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
primicerius? He was young, it was
You mix Greek and Roman, you know what you get? You get BAM!
Egyptians in the pre-dynastic times before 3200 B.C., from which people I show that the Dogon are partially descended culturally, and probably physically as well.
Pre-Cambrian Memory.
Tongues and odors mixed on the air: Iskari and motor oil, sweat and leather, Camlaander and Archipelagese and some Shining Empire dialect like silk-muffled cymbals.
Atalanta in Calydon
We have here another interesting proof of a connection between XIIth Dynasty Egypt and early Minoan Crete.
It was just a magnificent, India-ink night of moonlit clouds below and glimpses of the shimmering sea. What century are you in? he longed to ask her.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
Never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact - and if he were not, you could hurt his feelings.
Assumed to be australopithecines because there are no other known candidates. I
Does anyone here speak English? Or even Ancient Greek?
- A very lost Marcus Brody
Waban-aki: People from where the sun rises.
In that moment, he chose Greek. He threw in his lot with Camp Half-Blood-and the horses changed. The storm clouds inside burned away, leaving nothing but red dust and shimmering heat, like mirages on the Sahara.
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
_keTili; maSin mesame adgils mivuCenT astronomias; ras ityvi
In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?
A linguist who specialised in the languages of incense and burnt offerings, of moths and radial cremations.
It was the dawn of the third age of mankind ...
I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you ...
LYSISTRATA May gentle Love and the sweet Cyprian Queen shower seductive charms on our bosoms and all our person. If only we may stir so amorous a feeling among the men that they stand firm as sticks, we shall indeed deserve the name of peace-makers among the Greeks.
Unhappy Persia, that in former age
Hast been the seat of mighty Conquerors,
That in their prowesse and their policies, Have triumph over Africa.
Lothaire Konstantin Daciano, Sovereign of Dacia, the Realm of Blood and Mist.
Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
A Winterian wielding an Autumnian weapon, using Cordellan allegiance to bring Spring crumbling down.
One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and soul of the artist.
She might be the best-dressed little girl in her elementary school class, but she was still a Greek. Her parents spoke a foreign language, their food was different, and she looked different from the children she went to school with in Corktown.
Abject submission to the power on the throne which had been the rule of life in the ancient world since kings began, and was to be the rule of life in Asia for centuries to come, was cast off by the Greeks so easily, so lightly, hardly more than an echo of the contest has come down to us. In
YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.
In Sparta , paintings have been taken out of certain walls by cutting through the bricks, then have been placed in wooden frames, and so brought to the Comitium to adorn the aedileship of [C. Visellius] Varro and [C. Licinius] Murena.
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.
It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.
It was some time ago - in the twelfth century, as you humani measure time - a man from the land of the Scots. I do not remember his name." Both Sophie and Josh instinctively knew that Hekate was lying. "What happened to him?" Sophie asked. "He died." There was a peculiar high-pitched giggle.
If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad - and that was the truth about everything.
Caesar. The Ides of March are come. Soothsayer. [2] Ay, Caesar; but not gone.
Saul of Tarsus on the Damascene road.
Autumn of the Patriarch,
Sir, the year growing ancient,
Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth
Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' season
Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors,
Which some call nature's bastards.
The great maritime city of Asiatic Ionia, was of old the meeting-place of the East and the West. Here the Phoenician trader from the Baltic would meet the Hindu wandering to Intra, from Extra, Gangem; and the Hyperborean would step on shore side by side with the Nubian and the Aethiop.
Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday.
To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to center to right, like the hands of a clock.
Settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual
All over Greece, strangers of a certain age will greet one another with the question, "And where were you and what did you do when Xerxes came to Marathon?" Then they exchange lies.
Fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven
Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him.
[Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti,
Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]
Round-headed," he muttered. "Brachycephalic, gray-eyed, black-haired, with suggestion of the negroid. Celtic, I presume?
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.
This was, without a doubt, the cruciform of which the Bikura spoke. And it had been set here a minimum of many thousands of years ago - perhaps tens of thousands - long before mankind first left Old Earth. Almost certainly before Christ taught in Galilee. I
Her name was Zenobia and she was a descendant of Cleopatra. She
As above, so below. As within, so without. - The Emerald Tablet, circa 3000 BC
What species is he?" "British
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.
(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)
Youse guys think this deleted outfit is a blankety-blank nursery. Well, it ain't! See? - Remark attributed to a Hellenic corporal before the walls of Troy, 1194 B.C.
A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.