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Pausanias, Description of Greece | 34 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, The Iliad (ed. Samuel Butler) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, for Quintius, Sextus Roscius, Quintus Roscius, against Quintus Caecilius, and against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Euripides, The Trojan Women (ed. E. P. Coleridge) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pindar, Odes (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, Three orations on the Agrarian law, the four against Catiline, the orations for Rabirius, Murena, Sylla, Archias, Flaccus, Scaurus, etc. (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 773 (search)
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The son of Atreus, encircling Pergamus, the Phrygians' town, with murderous war around her stone-built towers, dragging Paris's head backward to cut his throat and sacking the city from roof to base, shall be a cause of many tears to maids and Priam's wife. And Helen, the daughter of Zeus, shall weep in bitter grief because she left her lord. Never may there appear to me or to my children's children the prospect which the wealthy Lydian ladies and Phrygia's brides will have as at their looms they converse: “Tell me, who will pluck me away from my ruined country, tightening his grasp on lovely tresses till the tears flow? it is all through you, the offspring of the long-necked swan; if indeed it is a true report that Leda bore you to a winged bird, when Zeus transformed himself there, or whether, in the tablets of the poets, fables have carried these tales to men's ears idly, out of season