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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 80 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 76 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb) | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Anabasis (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 16 | 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) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Euripides, Hippolytus (ed. David Kovacs), line 1 (search)
Aphrodite enters above the skene.
Aphrodite
Mighty and of high renown, among mortals and in heaven alike, I am called the goddess Aphrodite. Of all those who dwell between the Euxine Sea and the Pillars of Atlas and look on the light of the sun, I honor those who reverence my power, but I lay low all those who think proud thoughts against me. For in the gods as well one finds this trait: they enjoy receiving honor from mortals.
The truth of these words I shall shortly demonstrate. Hippolytus, Theseus' son by the Amazon woman and ward of holy Pittheus, alone among the citizens of this land of Trozen, says that I am the basest of divinities. He shuns the bed of love and will have nothing to do with marriage. Instead, he honors Apollo's sister Artemis, Zeus's daughter, thinking her the greatest of divinities. In the green wood, ever consort to the maiden goddess, he clears the land of wild beasts with his swift dogs and has gained a companionship greater than mortal. To this pair I
Euripides, Hippolytus (ed. David Kovacs), line 1021 (search)