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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War 68 0 Browse Search
Diodorus Siculus, Library 30 0 Browse Search
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 24 0 Browse Search
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) 16 0 Browse Search
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) 14 0 Browse Search
Pausanias, Description of Greece 12 0 Browse Search
Homer, The Iliad (ed. Samuel Butler) 8 0 Browse Search
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding) 6 0 Browse Search
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.) 6 0 Browse Search
Antiphon, Speeches (ed. K. J. Maidment) 6 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in T. Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, or The Braggart Captain (ed. Henry Thomas Riley). You can also browse the collection for Lesbos (Greece) or search for Lesbos (Greece) in all documents.

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T. Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, or The Braggart Captain (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 4, scene 6 (search)
Let her come spontaneously, seek you, court you, strive to win you. Unless you wish to lose that glory which you have, please have a care what you do. For I know that this was never the lot of any mortal, except two persons, yourself and Phaon of LesbosPhaon of Lesbos: Sappho, the poetess, was enamoured of Phaon the Lesbian. When he deserted her, she threw herself from the Leucadian promontory or Lover's Leap, which was supposed to provide a cure for unrequited love. Her death was the consequenLesbos: Sappho, the poetess, was enamoured of Phaon the Lesbian. When he deserted her, she threw herself from the Leucadian promontory or Lover's Leap, which was supposed to provide a cure for unrequited love. Her death was the consequence. See her Epistle to Phaon, the twenty-first of the Heroides of Ovid., to be loved so desperately. ACROTELEUTIUM aloud. I'll go in-doorsI'll go indoors: It must be remembered, that all this time they have pretended not to see Palaestrio or his master. Milphidippa cautioned her mistress only to take a side-glance at him (limis), after which they have, probably turned their backs.--or, my dear Milphidippa, do you call him out of doors. MILPHIDIPPA aloud. Aye; let's wait until some one comes ou