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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 30 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 26 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Hyperides, Speeches | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30 | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Letters (ed. Norman W. DeWitt, Norman J. DeWitt) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, The Iliad (ed. Samuel Butler) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, Odyssey | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Addressed to Ponticus
See poem 7.
CHAONIAdistrict on coast of North Epirus. Oracle of Zeus at Dodona, called Chaonian Zeus; priestesses called doves.
AMPHIONby the music of his harp, made stones rise and form the walls of Thebes.
MIMNERMOSelegiac poet from Kolophon, around 630 B.C.
HELL'S WHEELIxion, king of the Lapiths, was given Dia in marriage for a certain sum, payable to her father. Ixion having got Dia, refuses to pay; father harrasses Ixion; Ixion kills father. Brought in judgement before Jupiter, Ixion pleads so well he has convinced Jupiter, when Jupiter notices him making love to Juno and binds him to a revolving wheel of fire in Tartaros.
I told you how love would be, and you laughed.
Now your words no longer come free.
Look how you lie, a suppliant, when you come to her call.
The girl once bought rules over you in every sphere.
Chaonian doves can't beat me at love predictions:
I know which youths each girl will dominate.
Suffering and tears have earned me my expertis