Antipater of Thessalonica

Quotes

• “Κυλλήνην ὄρος Ἀρκάδων ἀκούεις:αὕτη σῆμ᾽ ἐπίκειτ᾽ Ἀπολλοδώρῳ.Πίσηθέν μιν ἰόντα νυκτὸς ὥρῃἔκτεινεν Διόθεν πεσὼν κεραυνός.τηλοῦ δ᾽ Αἰανέης τε καὶ Βεροίηςνικηθεὶς Διὸς ὁ δρομεὺς καθεύδει.”
• “You have heard of Cyllene the Arcadian mountain. That is the monument that covers Apollodorus. As he journeyed from Pisa by night the thunderbolt from Zeus killed him; and far from Aeanae and Beroea the racer sleeps, conquered by Zeus.”
• “Πᾶσα θάλασσα θάλασσα: τί Κυκλάδας στενὸν Ἕλλης  κῦμα καὶ Ὀξείας ἠλεὰ μεμφόμεθα;ἄλλως τοὔνομ᾽ ἔχουσιν ἐπεὶ τί με, τὸν προφυγ́οντα  κεῖνα, Σκαρφαιεὺς ἀμφεκάλυψε λιμήν;νόστιμον εὐπλοΐην ἀρῷτό τις: ὡς τά γε πόντου  πόντος, ὁ τυμβευθεὶς οἶδεν Ἀρισταγόρης.”
• “Every sea is sea. Why do we foolishly blame the Cyclades or the Hellespont, and the Sharp Isles? They merit not their evil fame; for why, when I had escaped them, did the harbour of Scarphaea drown me? Let who will pray for fair weather to bring him home; Aristagoras, who is buried here, knows that the sea is the sea.”
• “Στρυμόνι καὶ μεγάλῳ πεποτισμένον Ἑλλησπόντῳ  ἠρίον Ἠδωνῆς Φυλλίδος, Ἀμφίπολι,λοιπά τοι Αἰθοπίης Βραυρωνίδος ἴχνια νηοῦ  μίμνει, καὶ ποταμοῦ τἀμφιμάχητον ὕδωρ,τὴν δὲ ποτ᾽ Αἰγείδαις μεγάλην ἔριν ὡς ἁλιανθὲς  τρῦχος ἐπ᾽ ἀμφοτέραις δερκόμεθ᾽ ἠιόσιν.”
• “Amphipolis, tomb of Edonian Phyllis, washed by the Strymon and great Hellespont, all that is left of thee is the ruin of the temple of Brauronian Artemis and the disputed water of thy river. We see her for whom the Athenians strove so long now lying like a torn rag of precious purple on either bank.”

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