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Pindar, Olympian (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien), Olympian 4 For Psaumis of Camarina Chariot Race 452 B. C. (search)
Olympian 4 For Psaumis of Camarina Chariot Race 452 B. C. Charioteer of the thundercloud with untiring feet, highest Zeus! Your Seasons, whirling to the embroidered notes of the lyre's song, sent me as a witness of the most lofty games. When friends are successful, the noble immediately smile onthe sweet announcement. Son of Cronus, you who hold Aetna, the wind-swept weight on terrible hundred-headed Typhon, receive, for the sake of the Graces, this Olympic victory-procession, this most enduring light of widely powerful excellence. For the procession comes in honor of Psaumis' chariot; Psaumis, who, crowned with the olive of Pisa, hurries to rouse glory for Camarina. May the god be gracious to his future prayers, since I praise a man who is most eager in the raising of horses,who rejoices in being hospitable to all guests, and whose pure thoughts are turned towards city-loving peace. I will not stain my words with lies. Perseverance is what puts men to the test, and what saved the
Pindar, Olympian (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien), Olympian 13 For Xenophon of Corinth Foot Race and Pentathlon 464 B. C. (search)
noble herald, who announced their victories sixty times at both places, will confirm my words. Their victories at Olympia seem to have already been mentioned; and of those in the future I could tell clearly when the time comes. For now I am hopeful, although a god controlsthe outcome. If the good fortune of their family continues, we shall leave this to Zeus and Enyalius to accomplish. They won six times beneath the brow of Parnassus; and all their victories in Argos and in Thebes, and all that shall be witnessed by the royal Lycaean altar that rules over the Arcadians, and by Pellana, and Sicyon, and Megara, the beautifully enclosed precinct of the Aeacidae,and Eleusis and splendid Marathon, and the wealthy and beautiful cities beneath the high crest of Aetna, and Euboea—you may search through all Greece, and you will find that their victories are more than the eye can see. Come, swim away with agile feet!Zeus the Accomplisher, grant reverence, and a sweet good fortune of delights
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 296 (search)
, he will soon be with us, never fear.For your name, old man, has been loudly trumpeted through all lands, so that even if he is taking his ease, and slow to move, when he hears of you he will swiftly arrive. Oedipus Well, may he come with good fortune both for his own city and for me! What noble man is not his own friend? Antigone O Zeus! What shall I say? What shall I think, my father? Oedipus What is it, Antigone, my child? Antigone I see a woman coming towards us, mounted on a colt of Etna; she wears a Thessalian bonnet to screen her face from the sun.What shall I say? Is it she, or is it not? Does my judgment err? Yes—no—I cannot tell—ah, me! It is no other, yes! She greets me with bright glancesas she draws near, and makes a signal. Here is Ismene, clearly, and no other before me. Oedipus What is that you say, my child? Antigone That I see your daughter, my sister. By her voice right away you can know her. Ismene Father and sister, names most sweet to me! How hard it was <
Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 1 (search)
as always a fortified outpost threatening the island, not only in earlier times but also recently, in our own times, when Sextus Pompeius caused Sicily to revolt. It was named Rhegium, either, as Aeschylus says, because of the calamity that had befallen this region, for, as both he and others state, Sicily was once "rent"Cp. 1. 3. 19 and the footnote on "rent." from the continent by earthquakes, "and so from this fact," he adds, "it is called Rhegium." They infer from the occurrences about Aetna and in other parts of Sicily, and in Lipara and in the islands about it, and also in the Pithecussae and the whole of the coast of the adjacent continent, that it is not unreasonable to suppose that the rending actually took place. Now at the present time the earth about the Strait, they say, is but seldom shaken by earthquakes, because the orifices there, through which the fire is blown up and the red-hot masses and the waters are ejected, are open. At that time, however, the fire that wa
Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 2 (search)
e Symaethus and all rivers that flow down from Aetna and have good harbors at their mouths; and hedifferent set of colonists there and called it Aetna instead of Catana.476 B.C. And Pindar too cal here for "sacrifices" is "hieron." founder of Aetna." But at the death of Hiero467 B.C. the Catanng, took up their abode in a hilly district of Aetna called Innesa, and called the place, which is eighty stadia from Catana, Aetna, and declared Hiero its founder. Now the city of Aetna is situateAetna is situated in the interior about over Catana, and shares most in the devastation caused by the action of theust as wood-ashes nourish rue, so the ashes of Aetna, it is reasonable to suppose, have some qualitwn time, a certain Selurus, called the "son of Aetna," was sent up to Rome because he had put himsee was placed on a lofty scaffold, as though on Aetna, and the scaffold was made suddenly to break ut is covered with smoke and haze. Over against Aetna rise the Nebrodes Mountains,Now the Nebrodici.[8 more...]
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 3, chapter 116 (search)
In the first days of this spring, the stream of fire issued from Etna, as on former occasions, and destroyed some land of the Catanians, who live upon Mount Etna, which is the largest mountain in Sicily. Fifty years, it is said, had elapsed since the last eruption, there having been three in all since the Hellenes have inhab the Catanians, who live upon Mount Etna, which is the largest mountain in Sicily. Fifty years, it is said, had elapsed since the last eruption, there having been three in all since the Hellenes have inhabited Sicily. Such were the events of this winter; and with it ended the sixth year of this war, of which Thucydides was the historian.
Sophocles, Tracking Satyrs (ed. Anne Mahoney), line 298 (search)
that a dead animal's voice can roar like that? CylleneBelieve it: it speaks now it's dead, though it had no voice when it was alive. ChorusWhat did it look like? Long, curved, short? CylleneShort, like a pitcher, and covered with a colorful hide. ChorusWas it like a cat, or rather a leopard? CylleneIn between, really: it's round with short legs. ChorusCloser to a ferret, then, or a crab? CylleneNo, that's not it; try something else. ChorusIs it like one of the horned beetles that live on Aetna? CylleneNow you're getting closer to the beast ChorusAnd which part makes the sound, the inside or the outside? Cyllenefirst cousin to a potsherd. ChorusWhat name do you call it? Tell me, if you know any more. CylleneThe boy calls the animal a "tortoise" and the instrument a "lyre." Chorusproperty Several fragmentary lines follow, and a couple of lines are lost. Cylleneand this is his only consolation or cure for sorrow. He enjoys idly singing along; he coaxes Aeolian tunes from the lyre.
Polybius, Histories, book 1, The Romans Take Mount Eryx (search)
what had happened, was all eagerness to strike some new and effective blow, and thus repair the disaster which had befallen him. Eryx. Accordingly he took the first slight opening that offered to surprise and seize Eryx; and became master both of the temple of Aphrodite and of the city. This is a mountain close to the sea-coast on that side of Sicily which looks towards Italy, between Drepana and Panormus, but nearer to Drepana of the two. It is by far the greatest mountain in Sicily next to Aetna; and on its summit, which is flat, stands the temple of Erycinian Aphrodite, confessedly the most splendid of all the temples in Sicily for its wealth and general magnificence. The town stands immediately below the summit, and is approached by a very long and steep ascent. Lucius seized both town and temple; and established a garrison both upon the summit and at the foot of the road to it from Drepana. He kept a strict guard at both points, but more especially at the foot of the ascent, bel
Euripides, Rhesus (ed. Gilbert Murray), CHARACTERS OF THE PLAY (search)
whole it accords with my general impression that the Rhesus in its variation from the Euripidean norm goes further than the Alcestis, and not so far as the Cyclops, and goes in very much the same direction. I feel in the Rhesus a good deal of that curious atmosphere, not exactly comic, but wild and extravagant, which the Greeks felt to be suited to the Satyr horde; the atmosphere normally breathed by the one-eyed Giant of the cavern on volcanic Aetna, or the drunken and garlanded Heracles who wrestles with Death and cracks his ribs for him at midnight among the tombs. The whole scene and setting of the Rhesus; the man-wolf crawling away into the darkness and his two enemies presently crawling in out of the same darkness with his bloody spoils; the divine Thracian king with his round targe that shines by night and his horses whiter than the snow; the panic of the watch, the vaunting o
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 68b (search)
Venus; cf. Catul. 36.14n. in quo genere: after what manner. corruerit: overwhelmed; love's visit to him was with a vigorous assault that carried all defenses at once. With the active meaning of the verb cf. Lucr. 5.367 quae possint forte coorta corruere hanc rerum summam . quantum: etc. the comparison of figurative flames to the fires of Etna is not uncommon; cf. Hor. Ep. 17.30 ardeo quantum … nec Sicana fervida virens in Aetna flamma ; Ov. Epist. Sapph. 12 me calor Aetnaeo non minor igne tenet . rupes: for mons, as in Catul. 61.28; cf. Grat. Cyn. 430 in Trinacria rupe . lympha: etc., the waters referred to are the hot springs that by their vicinity gave its name to the pass
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