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There is a rock rising up above the ground. On it, say the Delphians, there stood and chanted the oracles a woman, by name Herophile and surnamed Sibyl. The former Sibyl I find was as ancient as any; the Greeks say that she was a daughter of Zeus by Lamia, daughter of Poseidon, that she was the first woman to chant oracles, and that the name Sibyl was given her by the Libyans.
Herophile was younger than she was, but nevertheless she too was clearly born before the Trojan war, as she foretold in her oracles that Helen would be brought up in Sparta to be the ruin of Asia and of Europe, and that for her sake the Greeks would capture Troy. The Delians remember also a hymn this woman composed to Apollo. In her poem she calls herself not only Herophile but also Artemis, and the wedded wife of Apollo, saying too sometimes that she is his sister, and sometimes that she is his daughter.
These statements she made in her poetry when in a frenzy and possessed by the god. Elsewhere in her oracl
Demosthenes, Letters (ed. Norman W. DeWitt, Norman J. DeWitt), Concerning the Sons of Lycurgus (search)
Demosthenes, Letters (ed. Norman W. DeWitt, Norman J. DeWitt), To the Council and the Assembly of the Athenians (search)
To the Council and the Assembly of the Athenians
Schaefer thinks this letter to be the work of a scribe
in the council of the Greek allies. Demosthenes to the Council and the Assembly
sends greeting.
A letter has come from AntiphilusFrom Plut. Phoc. 24 we learn that Antiphilus was commanding the
army of the allies besieging Antipater in Lamia, winter of 323-322
B.C. to the councillors of the allies,The
council of the allies is thought to have been meeting at Phylê in northern
Attica. which, while satisfactorily phrased for those who wish to have good news
in prospect, leaves many items unacceptable to those who toady to Antipater. These men,
taking along with them the dispatch from Antipater that came to Corinth addressed to
Deinarchus,Deinarchus, youngest of the ten Attic
orators, was opposed to Demosthenes and favored Macedon. His speech accusing Demost
Speech of Chlaeneas
"And why need I speak in detail of how the successors
of this king have treated the Greeks? For surely there is
no man living, so uninterested in public affairs, as not to have
heard how Antipater in his victory at Lamia treated the unhappy
Athenians, as well as the other Greeks; and how he
went so far in violence and brutality as to institute man-hunters, and send them to the various
cities to catch all who had ever spoken against,
or in any way annoyed, the royal family of
Macedonia: of whom some were dragged by force from the
temples, and others from the very altars, and put to death
with torture, and others who escaped were forced to leave
Greece entirely; nor had they any refuge save the Aetolian
nation alone. Battle of Crannon, ending the Lamian war, 7th Aug., B. C. 322. For the Aetolians were the only people in
Greece who withstood Antipater in behalf of those unjustly
defrauded of safety to their lives: they alone faced the invasion of Brennus and his ba
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 59 (search)
There is a woman, a citizen of Segesta, very rich, and nobly born, by name
Lamia. She, having her house full of
spinning jennies, for three years was making him robes and coverlets, all dyed with
purple; Attalus, a rich man at Netum;
Lyso at Lilybaeum; Critolaus at Enna; at Syracuse Aeschrio, Cleomenes, and Theomnastus; at Elorum Archonides
and Megistus. My voice will fail me before the names of the men whom he employed in
this way will; he himself supplied the purple—his friends supplied only
the work, I dare say; for I have no wish to accuse him in every particular, as if it
were not enough for me, with a view to accuse him, that he should have had so much
to give, that he should have wished to carry away so many things; and, besides all
that, this thing which he admits, namely, that he should
Bid the lyre and cittern play;
Enkindle incense, shed the victim's gore;
Heaven has watch'd o'er Numida,
And brings him safe from far Hispania's shore.
Now, returning, he bestows
On each dear comrade all the love he can;
But to Lamia most he owes,
By whose sweet side he grew from boy to man.
Note we in our calendar
This festal day with whitest mark from Crete:
Let it flow, the old wine-jar,
And ply to Salian time your restless feet.
Damalis tosses off her wine,
But Bassus sure must prove her match tonight.
Give us roses all to twine,
And parsley green, and lilies deathly white.
Every melting eye will rest
On Damalis' lovely face; but none may part
Damalis from our new-found guest;
She clings, and clings, like ivy, round his heart.