Saturday, December 1, 2012


"And if longing seizes you for sailing the stormy seas,

when the Pleiades flee mighty Orion

and plunge into the misty deep

and all the gusty winds are raging,

then do not keep your ship on the wine-dark sea

but, as I bid you, remember to work the land."

(Works and Days 618-23)

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    1. Man, put up some Homeric poetry and all it does is lure in spam...

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