Polybius, Histories, book 11, Dangers of the Treaty With Rome (search)
ment and ruin of Greece. That is the
tale told by your treaty with Rome, which formerly existed
only in written words, but is now seen in full operation.
Heretofore, though mere written words, it was a disgrace to
you: but now your execution of it has made that disgrace
palpable to the eyes of all the world. Moreover, Philip merely
lends his name and serves as a pretext for the war: he is not
exposed to any attack: it is against his allies,—the majority of
the Peloponnesian states, Boeotia, Euboea, Phocis, Locris,
Thessaly, Epirus,—that you have made this treaty, bargaining
that their bodies and their goods shall belong to
the Romans, their cities and their territory to
the Aetolians. Cp. 9. 39. And though personally, if you took a city, you
would not stoop to violate the freeborn, or to burn the buildings, because you look upon such conduct
as cruel and barbarous; yet you have made a treaty by which you have handed
over all other Greeks to the barbarians, to be exposed to the
most sh
Aristophanes, Clouds (ed. William James Hickie), line 180 (search)
s?
Dis. To measure out the land.
Strep.What belongs to an allotment?
Dis. No, but the whole earth.
Strep. You tell me a clever notion; for the contrivance is democratic and useful.
Dis. (pointing to a map) See, here's a map of the whole earth. Do you see? This is Athens.
Strep. What say you? I don't believe you; for I do not see the Dicasts sitting.
Dis. Be assured that this is truly the Attic territory.
Strep. Why, where are my fellow-tribesmen of Cicynna?
Dis. Here they are. And Euboea here, as you see, is stretched out a long way by the side of it to a great distance.
Strep. I know that; for it was stretched by us and Pericles. But where is Lacedaemon?
Dis. Where is it? Here it is.
Strep. How near it is to us! Pay great attention to this, to remove it very far from us.
Dis. By Jupiter, it is not possible.
Strep. Then you will weep for it.
Looking up and discovering Socrates.
Come, who is this man who is in the basket?
Dis. Himself.
Strep. Who's Himself?
Dis. Soc
teer, Myrtilus, if he would loosen the
linchpins of the chariot, or substitute pins of wax. Upon
the success of the plot, Pelops refused to carry out his
agreement, and threw Myrtilus into the sea near Geraestus in
Euboea. But
the dying curse of Myrtilus followed the house of Pelops
thereafter. Cf. Pind. O.
1.114ff.; Apoll. Rh.
1.752; Hyg. Fab.
84.
tertius heres: i.e.
Agamemnon, the succes Iliad, but this function on the part of Nemesis is nowhere
else mentioned. Perhaps it is from an unknown Alexandrian
source, or else the conjecture of Baehrens is right
(Amarunsia virgo = Artemis
of Amarynthus in Euboea; cf. Strab.
X.448; Paus.
1.31.4).
With this description of the iron age cf. Hes. WD 182ff.; Ov. Met. 1.127ff.; Verg. G. 2.1ff.
institiam: etc. cf.
Ov. Fast. 1.249
non
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 13, line 623 (search)
ing
my daughters touched assumed the forms of corn,
of sparkling wine, or gray-green olive oil.
Most surely, wonderful advantages.
“Soon as Atrides, he who conquered Troy
had heard of this (for you should not suppose
that we, too, did not suffer from your storms)
he dragged my daughters there with savage force,
from my loved bosom to his hostile camp,
and ordered them to feed the Argive fleet,
by their divinely given power of touch.
“Whichever way they could, they made escape
two hastened to Euboea, and two sought
their brother's island, Andros. Quickly then
an Argive squadron, following, threatened war,
unless they were surrendered. The brother's love
gave way to fear. And there is reason why
you should forgive a timid brother's fear:
he had no warrior like Aeneas, none
like Hector, by whose prowess you held Troy
from its destruction through ten years of war.
“Strong chains were brought to hold my daughters' arms.
Both lifted suppliant hands, which still were free,
to heaven and cried<
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 13, line 898 (search)
d quiet waves. But Scylla soon
returned (because she did not trust herself
in deep salt waters) and she wandered there
naked of garments on the thirsty sand;
but, tired, by chance she found a lonely bay,
and cooled her limbs with its enclosing waves.
Then suddenly appeared a newly made
inhabitant of that deep sea, whose name
was Glaucus. Cleaving through the blue sea waves,
he swam towards her. His shape had been transformed
but lately for this watery life, while he
was living at Anthedon in Euboea.—
now he is lingering from desire for her
he saw there and speaks whatever words
he thought might stop her as she fled from him.
Yet still she fled from him, and swift through fear,
climbed to a mountain top above the sea.
Facing the waves, it rose in one huge peak,
parting the waters with a forest crown.
She stood on that high summit quite secure:
and, doubtful whether he might be a god
or monster, wondered at his flowing hair
which covered his broad shoulders and his back,—
and marvelled a
). The limping effect is produced because the last
foot is always a spondee.
Haec: sc. Fortuna .
et aestuantis: this is the
reading of the manuscripts, but it creates a cum-clause with two verbs
in different moods ( verterit . . . fertur
). The emendation exaestuantis
has proven attractive; on that reading, line
1 is the cum -clause. Euripi: The narrow churning strait
separating the island of Euboea
from the Greek mainland.
dudum: "just now"; adverb with
tremendos .
ultroque = ultro ("moreover,
furthermore") + -que .
suis: "of her
power," genitive with ostentum . The
letters in brackets are an emendation designed to heal the meter; the
manuscripts read simply suis ("to her
[followers]"), but the line then has one syllable too few. Other
possi
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 5, line 71 (search)
oans;
Till through the spacious vault a voice at length
Broke from the virgin conquered by the god:
'From this great struggle thou, O Roman, free
'Escap'st the threats of war : alive, in peace,
'Thou shalt possess the hollow in the coast
'Of vast Euboea.' Thus she spake, no more.
Ye mystic tripods, guardians of the fates
And Paean, thou, from whom no day is hid
By heaven's high rulers, Master of the truth,
Why fear'st thou to reveal the deaths of kings,
Rome's murdered princes, and the latest dohoebus snatched
Back from her soul his secrets; and she fell
Yet hardly living. Nor did Appius dread
Approaching death, but by dark oracles
Baffled, while yet the Empire of the world
Hung in the balance, sought his promised realm
In Chalcis of Euboea. Yet to escape
All ills of earth, the crash of war-what god
Can give thee such a boon, but death alone?
For on the solitary shore a grave
Awaits thee, where Carystos' marble cragsAppius was seized with fever as soon as he reached the spot; and th
is
an Iland where one Menelaus did sometimes reigne, from
whome was stollen by Paris
faire Helena
, and carried to
Troy
, as ancient Recordes doe declare. The same day
we had sight of a little Iland called Bellapola, and did
likewise see both the Milos
, being Ilands in the Archipelago. The 11 in the morning we were hard by an
Iland called Falconara, and the Iland of Antemila. The
12 in the morning we were betweene Fermenia and Zea,
being both Ilands. That night wee were betweene
Negroponte
and Andri, being likewise Ilands. The 13
in the morning we were hard by Psara and Sarafo, being
Ilands nine or tenne miles from Chio, and could not fetch
Chio. So we put roome with a port in Metelin called
Sigra, and about nine of the clocke at night we ankered
there. The 15 we came from thence, the sixteenth we
put into Porto Delfi. The port is 9 English miles to the
Northward of the City of Chio, (and it may be twelve of
their miles) this night we stayed in the sayd port, being
in the I
