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Pindar, Pythian (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien),
Pythian 4
For Arcesilas of Cyrene
Chariot Race
462 B. C. (search)
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), BOOK I, section 161 (search)
Nature of the Euphrates River
The Euphrates rises in Armenia and flows through
Syria and the country beyond to Babylonia. It seems to
discharge itself into the Red Sea; but in point of fact it does
not do so: for its waters are dissipated among the ditches dug
across the fields before it reaches the sea. Accordingly the
nature of this river is the reverse of that of others. For in
other rivers the volume of water is increased in proportion to
the greater distance traversed, and they are at their highest in
winter and lowest in midsummer; but this river is fullest of
water at the rising of the dog-star, and has the
largest volume of water in Syria, which continually decreases as it advances. July 26. The reason of this is that the
increase is not caused by the collection of winter rains, but by
the melting of the snows; and its decrease by the diversion of
its stream into the land, and its subdivision
for the purposes of irrigation. The transport of the army
of Antiochus in his easter
Addressed to Tullus
See poems 1, 6, and 22.
LESBIAN WINEsweet, not strong.
MENTORfamous silversmith in early 4th c. B.C.
PACTOLUSthe gold-bearing river in Lydia; see poem 6.
RUBERliterally “Red Sea,” but refers to modern Persian gulf.
ALCINOUS' GIFTSto Odysseus.
You are free to drink Lesbian wine from Mentor's cup,
sullen and effeminate on Tiber's wave.
Now you marvel at the speed of the skiffs,
now at how slowly the rafts with their cables go;
a grove sends up planted woods from every peak,
as many trees as crowd the Caucasus.
But none of these can compare to my affair:
great wealth has no effect on Love.
When she prolongs our hotly desired rendezvous
or drives our whole day in lingering sex,
then the Pactolus' waters flow under my roof,
and a pearl is plucked from the Ruber!
Then my joys promise kings will yield to me!
May they remain till the fates command my death!
Who enjoys wealth when their love is down?
Prizes ain't worth shit with Venus angry!
She can break the great p
Boethius, Consolatio Philosophiae, Book Three , Metrum 3: (search)
Metrum 3:
The rich are plagued by cares.
Meter: Iambic trimeter alternating with elegiac pentameter (= 2 hemiepes). In
the trimeter there is a caesura after the fifth element; no substitutions
are allowed in the second hemiepes of the pentameter.
non expleturas: "not about to
fulfill," i.e., "that will not fulfill/satisfy."
bacis: < baca , literally, "berry"; by extension,
"pearl." rubri litoris: i.e.,
from the shore of the "Red Sea," which for ancients could be either the
Persian Gulf, the Indian Ocean, or what we call the Red Sea itself.
centeno . . . bove: "with a
hundred oxen" (collective singular common in poetry).
superstitem: "surviving," i.e.,
"while he lives," to contrast with defunctum
in next line.
leves: here, "fickle."