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P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 9, line 418 (search)
manth and Aeacus were both with age constreynd: And Minos also: who (as long as lusty youth did last,) Did even with terror of his name make myghty Realmes agast. But then was Minos weakened sore, and greatly stood in feare Of Milet, one of Deyons race: who proudly did him beare Uppon his father Phoebus and the stoutnesse of his youth. And though he feard he would rebell: yit durst he not his mouth Once open for to banish him his Realme: untill at last Departing of his owne accord, Miletus swiftly past The Gotesea and did build a towne uppon the Asian ground, Which still reteynes the name of him that first the same did found. And there the daughter of the brooke Maeander which dooth go So often backward, Cyane, a Nymph of body so Exceeding comly as the lyke was seldome heard of, as Shee by her fathers wynding bankes for pleasure walking was, Was knowen by Milet: unto whom a payre of twinnes shee brought, And of the twinnes the names were Caune and Byblis. Byblis ought To
P. Terentius Afer (Terence), Adelphi: The Brothers (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 4, scene 5 (search)
t of the Phormio. AESCHINUS aside. Undone! MICIO What's the matter? AESCHINUS Nothing. Very well: proceed. MICIO He has come to take her with him; for he lives at Miletus. AESCHINUS What ! To take the girl away with him? MICIO Such is the act. AESCHINUS All the way to Miletus, pray? To Miletus, pray?: A colony of Athens, on the coMiletus, pray? To Miletus, pray?: A colony of Athens, on the coast of Asia Minor. MICIO Yes. AESCHINUS aside. I'm overwhelmed with grief To MICIO. But what of them? What do they say? MICIO What do you suppose they should? Why, nothing at all. The mother has trumped up a tale, that there is a child by some other man, I know not who, and she does not state the name; she says that he was the firsMiletus, pray?: A colony of Athens, on the coast of Asia Minor. MICIO Yes. AESCHINUS aside. I'm overwhelmed with grief To MICIO. But what of them? What do they say? MICIO What do you suppose they should? Why, nothing at all. The mother has trumped up a tale, that there is a child by some other man, I know not who, and she does not state the name; she says that he was the first, and that she ought not to be given to the other. AESCHINUS Well now, does not this seem just to you after all? MICIO No. AESCHINUS Why not, pray? Is the other to be carrying her away from here? MICIO Why should he not take her? AESCHINUS You have acted harshly and unfeelingly, and even, if, father, I may speak my sentiments more
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Julius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 4 (search)
Apollonius, the son of Molon, at that time the most celebrated master of rhetoric. While on his voyage thither, in the winter season, he was taken by pirates near the island of Pharmacusa, Pharmacusa, an island lying off the coast of Asia, near Miletus. It is now called Parmosa. and detained by them, burning with indignation, for nearly forty days; his only attendants being a physician and two chamberlains. For he had instantly dispatched his other servants and the friends who accompanied himc province, who were equally liberal from their public funds in the case of other Romans who fell into the hands of pirates at that period. Fifty talents having been paid down, he was landed on the coast, when, having collected some ships, From Miletus, as we are informed by Plutarch. he lost no time in putting to sea in pursuit of the pirates, and having captured them, inflicted upon them the punishment with which he had often threatened them in jest. At that time Mithridates was ravaging th
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 6, line 750 (search)
ortunes: for the fates in time ' Shall give thee all thy due; and thy great sire,Referring probably to an episode intended to be introduced in a later book, in which the shade of Pompeius was to foretell his fate to Sextus. ' A surer prophet, in Sicilian fields 'Shall speak thy future-doubting even he ' What regions of the world thou shouldst avoid ' And what shouldst seek. O miserable race! ' Europe and Asia and Libya's plains,Cnaeus was killed in Spain after the battle of Munda; Sextus at Miletus; Pompeius himself, of course, in Egypt. ' Which saw your conquests, now shall hold alike ' Your burial-place-nor has the earth for you ' A happier land than this.' His task performed, He stands in mournful guise, with silent look Asking for death again; yet could not die Till mystic herb and magic chant prevailed. For nature's law, once used, had power no more To slay the corpse and set the spirit free. With plenteous wood she builds the funeral pyre To which the dead man comes: then as the
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