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Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. John Dryden) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. Theodore C. Williams) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristophanes, Acharnians (ed. Anonymous) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Euripides, Ion (ed. Robert Potter) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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ON HIS PINNACE
Yonder Pinnace ye (my guests!) behold
Saith she was erstwhile fleetest-fleet of crafts,
Nor could by swiftness of aught plank that swims,
Be she outstripped, whether paddle plied,
Or fared she scudding under canvas-sail.
Eke she defieth threat'ning Adrian shore,
Dare not denay her, insular Cyclades,
And noble Rhodos and ferocious Thrace,
Propontis too and blustering Pontic bight.
Where she (my Pinnace now) in times before,
Was leafy woodling on Cytórean Chine
For ever loquent lisping with her leaves.
Pontic Amastris! Box-tree-clad Cytórus!
Cognisant were ye, and you weet full well
(So saith my Pinnace) how from earliest age
Upon your highmost-spiring peak she stood,
How in your waters first her sculls were dipt,
And thence thro' many and many an important strait
She bore her owner whether left or right,
Where breezes bade her fare, or Jupiter deigned
At once propitious strike the sail full square;
Nor to the sea-shore gods was aught of vow
By her deemed needful, when