 Thus the hawk addressed the nightingale of variegated-throat, as he carried her in his talons, when he had caught her, very high in the clouds. She then, pierced on all sides by his crooked talons, was wailing piteously, whilst he victoriously addressed...  The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis - Page 85by Hesiod - 1856 - 495 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - Folklore - 1868 - 422 pages
...issued Helen. Nemesis is a Norn, who, with Shame, "having abandoned men, depart, when they have elad their fair skin in white raiment, to the tribe of the immortals '." Swans were kept and fed as sacred birds on the Eurotas, and were reverenced in Sparta as emblems... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - Folklore - 1868 - 432 pages
...an egg, from which issued Helen. Nemesis is a Norn, who, with Shame, "having abandoned men, depart, when they have clad their fair skin in white raiment, to the tribe of the immortals '." Swans were kept and fed as sacred birds on the Eurotas, and were reverenced in Sparta ss emblems... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - Folklore - 1873 - 688 pages
...issued Helen. Nemesis is a Norn, who, with Shame, "having abandoned men, depart, -when they have dad their fair skin in white raiment, to the tribe of the immortals V Swans were kept and fed as sacred birds on the Eurotas, and were reverenced in Sparta as emblems... | |
 | Victor Duruy - History - 1892 - 330 pages
...look. Then, also to Olympos will Shame and Retribution1 depart, after they have clad their fair skins in white raiment, to the tribe of the immortals ;...behind, and against evil there shall be no resource." Whence come these miseries ? From the jealousy of the gods. Heaven is a reflection of the earth ; and... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 446 pages
...make some effort at decency in its rites, it will not do you much good.] THE HAWK AND THE NIGHTINGALE. Now then will I speak a fable to kings, wise even...they are. Thus the hawk addressed the nightingale of variegated throat, as he carried her in his talons, when he had caught her, very high in the clouds.... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 438 pages
...make some effort at decency in its rites, it will not do you much good.] THE HAWK AND THE NIGHTINGALE. Now then will I speak a fable to kings, wise even...they are. Thus the hawk addressed the nightingale of variegated throat, as he carried her in his talons, when he had caught her, very high in the clouds.... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 488 pages
...to Olympus from earth with-itsbroad-ways shall Shame and Retribution, having abandoned men, depart, when they have clad their fair skin in white raiment,...when he had caught her, very high in the clouds. She then, pierced on all sides by his crooked talons, was wailing piteously, whilst he victoriously addressed... | |
 | Otto Augustus Wall - Phallicism - 1919 - 774 pages
...gods. The helplessness and dependence of men on the will of the gods is told by Hesiod in this fable: "Now then will I speak a fable to kings, wise even...they are. Thus the hawk addressed the nightingale of variegated throat, as he carried her in his talons, when he had caught her, very high in the clouds.... | |
 | Otto Augustus Wall - 1919 - 630 pages
...gods. The helplessness and dependence of men on the will of the gods is told by Hesiod in this fable: "Now then will I speak a fable to kings, wise even...they are. Thus the hawk addressed the nightingale of variegated throat, as he carried her in his talons, when he had caught her, very high in the clouds.... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 460 pages
...to Olympus from earth with-itsbroad-ways shall Shame and Retribution, having abandoned men, depart, when they have clad their fair skin in white raiment,...when he had caught her, very high in the clouds. She then, pierced on all sides by his crooked talons, was wailing piteously, whilst he victoriously addressed... | |
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