Ancient & Classical
epub |eng | 2015-07-31 | Author:Tiruvalluvar & Gandhi, Gopalkrishna

Chapter 46 WRONG COMPANY 451 The great will the mean avoid The mean from the great will hide 452 Water turns as sour, saline or sick as the soil it ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Prudentius;Malamud, Martha A.; & Martha A. Malamud

“Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Andrew Lang

CHAPTER IX BRONZE AND IRON Taking the Iliad and Odyssey just as they have reached us they give, with the exception of one line, an entirely harmonious account of the ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-24 | Author:Geoffrey Chaucer [Chaucer, Geoffrey]

THE SQUIRE’S TALE. THE PROLOGUE. “HEY! Godde’s mercy!” said our Hoste tho,1 1then “Now such a wife I pray God keep me fro’. Lo, suche sleightes and subtilities In women ...
( Category: Medieval June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Ovid

Book 9 Hercules is the key figure in the next group of stories. Acheloüs and Hercules (1–97) is a lively account of how the river-god fought with the hero for ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-21 | Author:Horace

EPISTLE 16 After describing his Sabine estate, Horace reflects on the nature of goodness. My dear Quinctius, to save you asking about my farm – whether it feeds its master ...
( Category: Satire April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 1991-06-30 | Author:Homer & Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox

But Teucer and Ajax, aiming at him together, shot!—Teucer’s arrow hitting the gleaming belt that cinched his body-shield around his chest— but Zeus brushed from his son the deadly spirits: ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Ferdowsi, Abolqasem [Ferdowsi, Abolqasem]

Once more Rostam spoke: “Forget this injustice, prince. Don’t sully my name and make your own soul contemptible; only evil will come of this struggle. I shall give you a ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-04-26 | Author:Horace

4 Descende caelo Come down from heaven, Calliope, articulate on the flute a melody long drawn out, or with your incisive voice, if you prefer, or upon the strings of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-07-25 | Author:Lucretius

Book V Cosmos and Civilization Who can build a fitting song, who has the strength of heart To match the Majesty of Things and these truths in his art? Or ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1996-09-25 | Author:Aristotle

14. Reference conventions Like many translators of the Poetics I have divided the text into sections and sub-sections to help the reader follow the structure of Aristotle’s exposition. These divisions, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2003-04-23 | Author:Homer

V Hymn to Aphrodite Muse, speak to me of the works of Aphrodite, the golden one, the Cyprian, she who awakens sweet longing in the gods and subdues the race ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1991-06-30 | Author:Homer

But Teucer and Ajax, aiming at him together, shot!—Teucer’s arrow hitting the gleaming belt that cinched his body-shield around his chest— but Zeus brushed from his son the deadly spirits: ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Apollonius of Rhodes

BOOK 4 Now Zeus’ daughter, deathless Muse, describe for me the Colchian maiden’s wiles and worries. The mind within me spins in speechlessness, wondering whether I should call the impulse ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-01-25 | Author:Euripides

Her entreaties and appeals to her father, and her maiden’s years – in their love for battle the officers set this at naught; her father after praying gave an order ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )