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So in the Libyan fable it is toldThat once an eagle, stricken with a dart,Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,'With our own feathers, not by others' hands,Are we now smitten.'
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δίχα δ' ἄλλων μονόφρων εἰμί
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I think the slain care little if they sleep or rise again.
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Τελεῖται δ' ἐς τὸ πεπρωμένον·οὔθ' ὑποκαίων οὔτ' ἐπιλείβωνοὔτε δακρύων ἀπύρων ἱερῶνὀργὰς ἀτενεῖς παραθέλξει.
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Αἰόλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων κακά,πόνου δ᾽ ἴδοις ἂν οὐδαμοῦ ταὐτὸν πτερόν.
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Φύλακα πολυπόνωνβροτῶν.
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She Helen brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.
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Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.
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κρεῖσσον γὰρ εἰσάπαξ θανεῖνἢ τὰς ἁπάσας ἡμέρας πάσχειν κακῶς.
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Κλύειν δίκαιος μᾶλλον ἢ πρᾶξαι θέλεις.
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A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
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Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering pouredAvails; no altars hath he, nor is soothedBy hymns of praise. From him alone of allThe powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
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Μέγας γὰρ Ἅιδης ἐστὶν εὔθυνος βροτῶνἔνερθε χθονός,δελτογράφῳ δὲ πάντ᾽ ἐπωπᾷ φρενί.
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Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.
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Μνήμην ἁπάντων, μουσομήτορ' ἐργάνην.
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Τὸ κηδεῦσαι καθ' ἑαυτὸν ἀριστεύει μακρῷ.
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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Καὶ γλῶσσα τοξεύσασα μὴ τὰ καίρια,γένοιτο μύθου μῦθος ἂν θελκτήριος.
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Σάφ' εἰδότας χρὴ τῶνδε θυμοῦσθαι πέρι·τὸ γὰρ τοπάζειν τοῦ σάφ' εἰδέναι δίχα.
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Oh me, I have been struck a mortal blow right inside.
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Ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐκ εἰ δυστυχῶ, τοῦδ' εἵνεκαθέλοιμ' ἂν ὡς πλείστοισι πημονὰς τυχεῖν.
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Ἐγὼ διδαχθεὶς ἐν κακοῖς ἐπίσταμαιπολλοὺς καθαρμούς, καὶ λέγειν ὅπου δίκησιγᾶν θ᾽ ὁμοίως.
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
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Δακὼν δὲ στόμιον ὡς νεοζυγὴςπῶλος βιάζῃ καὶ πρὸς ἡνίας μάχῃ.