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Pausanias, Description of Greece, Elis 2, chapter 26 (search)
t. This of all foods the creature likes best; so it stuffs itself with the reed till it bursts with surfeit, and after it has thus died they find inside it the greater part of the thread. Seria is known to be an island lying in a recess of the Red Sea. But I have heard that it is not the Red Sea, but a river called Ser, that makes this island, just as in Egypt the Delta is surrounded by the Nile and by no sea. Such another island is Seria said to be. These Seres themselves are of AethiopianRed Sea, but a river called Ser, that makes this island, just as in Egypt the Delta is surrounded by the Nile and by no sea. Such another island is Seria said to be. These Seres themselves are of Aethiopian race, as are the inhabitants of the neighboring islands, Abasa and Sacaea. Some say, however, that they are not Ethiopians but a mongrel race of Scythians and Indians. Such are the accounts that are given. As you go from Elis to Achaia you come after one hundred and fifty-seven stades to the river Larisus, and in modern days this river forms the boundary between Elis and Achaia, though of old the boundary was Cape Araxus on the coast.
Pindar, Pythian (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien), Pythian 4 For Arcesilas of Cyrene Chariot Race 462 B. C. (search)
fleece lay in a thicket, held in the ravening jaws of a serpent,which in thickness and length surpassed a ship with fifty oars, built by the blows of a hammer. It is too long a way for me to go by the beaten track; for time presses, and I know a shortcut. In poetic skill I am a guide to many others. Jason killed the gray-eyed serpent with its dappled back by cunning,Arcesilas, and stole away Medea, with her own help, to be the death of Pelias. And they reached the expanses of Ocean, and the Red Sea, and the race of the Lemnian women, who killed their husbands. There they displayed their prowess of limbs in athletic contests with a cloak for a prize, and they went to bed with the women. In foreignfields then the fated day, or night, received the seed of your shining prosperity; for there the race of Euphemus was planted, to continue forever. And having gone to share the home of the Lacedaemonians, in time they left to settle the island once called Calliste. From there the son of Leto g
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), BOOK I, section 161 (search)
, neither grove, nor any thing of that sort. The priests abide therein both nights and days, performing certain purifications, and drinking not the least drop of wine while they are in the temple." Moreover, he attests that we Jews went as auxiliaries along with king Alexander, and after him with his successors. I will add further what he says he learned when he was himself with the same army, concerning the actions of a man that was a Jew. His words are these: "As I was myself going to the Red Sea, there followed us a man, whose name was Mosollam; he was one of the Jewish horsemen who conducted us; he was a person of great courage, of a strong body, and by all allowed to be the most skillful archer that was either among the Greeks or barbarians. Now this man, as people were in great numbers passing along the road, and a certain augur was observing an augury by a bird, and requiring them all to stand still, inquired what they staid for. Hereupon the augur showed him the bird from when
Pindar, Pythian 4 (ed. Steven J. Willett), poem 4 (search)
do that task. For it lay within a thicket near the ravenous jaws of a dragon which, in length and breadth, exceeded a fifty-oared ship wrought by iron-nailing blows. Returning home by highway is too long; for time is pressing me and I know a short path: for many others I lead the way in skill. The glaring-eyed snake with speckled back, O Archesilaus, he slew by cunning, and stole with her own help Medea, the Peliasassassin. They came amid the immensity of Ocean, and the Red Sea, and the race of manslaughtering Lemnian women: there also in contests of their limbs they showed their strength for a prize cloak, and slept with them. In foreign furrows then the destined days or nights prosperously received the seed of your family's splendor: for there Euphemus' race was planted to tower up forever; and after sharing Spartan homes and ways they settled in time on the island once called "Fairest;" from there the son of Leto granted you the plain of L
Polybius, Histories, book 9, Nature of the Euphrates River (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
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Odes (ed. John Conington), Book 1, Poem 35 (search)
, should fall The state's tall prop, lest crowds on fire To arms, to arms! the loiterers call, And thrones be tumbled in the mire. Necessity precedes thee still With hard fierce eyes and heavy tramp: Her hand the nails and wedges fill, The molten lead and stubborn clamp. Hope, precious Truth in garb of white, Attend thee still, nor quit thy side When with changed robes thou tak'st thy flight In anger from the homes of pride. Then the false herd, the faithless fair, Start backward; when the wine runs dry. The jocund guests, too light to bear An equal yoke, asunder fly. O shield our Caesar as he goes To furthest Britain, and his band, Rome's harvest! Send on Eastern foes Their fear, and on the Red Sea strand! O wounds that scarce have ceased to run! O brother's blood! O iron time! What horror have we left undone? Has conscience shrunk from aught of crime? What shrine has rapine held in awe? What altar spared? O haste and beat The blunted steel we yet may draw On Arab and on Massagete!
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. Theodore C. Williams), Book 8, line 671 (search)
People, with their gods of hearth and home, and all Olympian Powers. Uplifted on his ship he stands; his brows beneath a double glory smile, and bright over his forehead beams the Julian star. in neighboring region great Agrippa leads, by favor of fair winds and friendly Heaven, his squadron forth: upon his brows he wears the peerless emblem of his rostral crown. Opposing, in barbaric splendor shine the arms of Antony: in victor's garb from nations in the land of morn he rides, and from the Red Sea, bringing in his train Egypt and Syria, utmost Bactria's horde, and last—O shameless!—his Egyptian spouse. All to the fight make haste; the slanted oars and triple beaks of brass uptear the waves to angry foam, as to the deep they speed like hills on hill-tops hurled, or Cyclades drifting and clashing in the sea: so vast that shock of castled ships and mighty men! Swift, arrowy steel and balls of blazing tow rain o'er the waters, till the sea-god's world flows red with slaughter. In the mid
Sextus Propertius, Elegies (ed. Vincent Katz), Book 1, Addressed to Tullus (search)
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."
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 6, line 624 (search)
m dogs Stricken with madness, foaming at the stream; A lynx's entrails: and the knot that grows Upon the fell hyaena; flesh of stags Fed upon serpents; and the sucking fish Which holds the vessel backOne of the miraculous stories to be found in Pliny's 'Natural History.' See Lecky's 'Augustus to Charlemagne,' vol. i., p. 370. though eastern winds Make bend the canvas; dragon's eyes; and stones That sound beneath the brooding eagle's wings. Nor Araby's viper, nor the ocean snake Who in the Red Sea waters guards the shell, Are wanting; nor the slough on Libyan sands By horned reptile cast; nor ashes fail Snatched from an altar where the Phoenix died. And viler poisons many, which herself Has made, she adds, whereto no name is given: Pestiferous leaves pregnant with magic chants And blades of grass which in their primal growth Her cursed mouth had slimed. Last came her voice More potent than all herbs to charm the gods Who rule in Lethe. Dissonant murmurs first And sounds discordant fr
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