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    Sophocles
    “ἰὼ
    σκότος, ἐμὸν φάος,
    ἔρεβος ὦ φαεννότατον, ὡς ἐμοί,
    ἕλεσθ᾽ ἕλεσθέ μ᾽ οἰκήτορα,
    ἕλεσθέ μ᾽”
    ― Sophocles
    tags: greek-ajax-sophocles
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    Sophocles
    “Τοσαῦτά σ', ὦ Ζεῦ, προστρέπω· καλῶ δ' ἅμα
    πομπαῖον Ἑρμῆν χθόνιον εὖ με κοιμίσαι,
    ξὺν ἀσφαδάστῳ καὶ ταχεῖ πηδήματι.”
    ― Sophocles
    tags: ajax, greek, sophocles
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  • #3
    Sophocles
    “OD: σὺ οὔτε φωνεῖς οὔτε δρασείεις σοφά.
    NE: ἀλλ‘ εἰ δίκαια, τῶν σοφῶν κρείσσω τάδε.”
    ― Sophocles
    tags: ajax, greek, sophocles
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  • #4
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “atque illi artifices corporis simulacra ignotis nota faciebant; quae uel si nulla, nihilo sint tamen obscuriores clari uiri.”
    ― Cicero, Letters of Cicero
    tags: ad-familiares, cicero, latin, letters
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  • #5
    Petronius
    “utres inflati ambulamus. minoris quam muscae sumus, muscae tamen aliquam uirtutem habent, nos non pluris sumus quam bullae.”
    ― Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon
    tags: latin, petronius, satyricon
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  • #6
    Lucan
    “hic sacra domus carique penates, hic mihi Roma fuit.”
    ― Lucan, Lucan; The Civil War Books I-X
    tags: 8, bellum-civile, book, civil-war, eight, latin, lucan, pharsalia, viii
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    Lucan
    “quod defles, illud amasti.”
    ― Lucan, Lucan; The Civil War Books I-X
    tags: bellum-civile, civil-war, latin, lucan, pharsalia
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  • #8
    Sophocles
    “ὁρῶ γὰρ ἡμᾶς οὐδὲν ὄντας ἄλλο πλὴν, εἴδωλ‘ ὅσοιπερ ζῶμεν ἤ κούφην σκιάν”
    ― Sophocles
    tags: ajax, greek, sophocles
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