Son of Laertes and seed of Zeus, resourceful Odysseus,Related posts:
where are you running, turning your back in battle like a coward?
Do not let them strike the spear in your back as you run for it.
διογενὲς Λαερτιάδη πολυμήχαν᾽ Ὀδυσσεῦ
πῇ φεύγεις μετὰ νῶτα βαλὼν κακὸς ὣς ἐν ὁμίλῳ;
μή τίς τοι φεύγοντι μεταφρένῳ ἐν δόρυ πήξῃ. 95
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Friday, May 16, 2025
Don't Be a Coward
Homer, Iliad 8.93-95 (Diomedes speaking; tr. Richmond Lattimore):