/lit/ - Literature

>>16800037
Pasta. That's it.

>>16483272
Ah it's not bad, just not exceedingly memorable.
I've opened my copy here and found notes I took on Archilochus, Tyrtaeus, and Mimnermus.

I remember valuing this book more for the insight into Grecian humor rather than the protestations of age and desire. Going through it now, it's better than I remember. I'll have to read it again :)

Some pieces I've just come across:

Aristoxenus:
> And which sort of men are the biggest of pseuds
> and the biggest charlatans? Seers!

Susarion
> Oyez, Oyes! Announcement by Susarion,
> Philinus' son, Magarion from Tripodisc.
> Woman's a pest. But all the same, parishioners,
> no household can exist without aforementioned pest:
> for marry or stay single, either's damnable.

Ibycus
> Once again Love, as he looks at me meltingly
> under dark eyelashes, tries to induce me
> with every enticement to enter the Cyprian
> goddess's endless hunting net.

> By heaven, I tremble upon his approach
> like a champion horse who is feeling his age
> and is led once again to the chariot-yoke for a race.