“Hold my coat while I belt Boupalos in the eye. I am ambidextrous and never miss a punch.” Willis BarnstoneHipponax Author:Hipponax
“Hermes, dear Hermes, Maia's son from Kyllene, I pray to you, for I'm frozen and I shiver. Give Hipponax a woolen overcoat, a Persian cape, some sandals and felt slippers, and sixty gold staters for his inner wall. Give Hipponax a woolen overcoat. I tell you, his teeth are rattling in his head! But from you never even a shabby coat against the very cold or slippers to keep my toes from freezing.” Willis BarnstoneHermesHipponax Author:Hipponax
“Never yet has the blind god, Wealth, come to my house and said 'Hipponax, I'm giving you thirty silver minas and much more.' No, he's far too tight.” Willis BarnstoneHipponax Author:Hipponax
“O Muse, sing to me of that sea-monster, Eurymedon's son, whose stomach, like a knife, fattens on all it finds. Tell of his dreadful end, and how by public order the town will stone him to death beside the sterile sea.” Willis BarnstoneParodyHipponax Author:Hipponax
“I will abandon my agonized soul to vice if instantly you don't send a medimnos of barley. From the flour I'll make a brew to drink as medicine against my sorrows.” Willis BarnstoneHipponax Author:Hipponax
“In a Lydian voice she said, 'Come quick, I will plug up your tight asshole.' And she beat my balls with a branch as though I were a scapegoat. I tripped, and stuck on the gallows I suffered a double torture: a branch lashed my chest; someone wet me with cowshit and my ass stank. Beetles came, drawn by the stinking gook like summer flies. They fell on me, shoved, filing their teeth on my bones. The invasion complete, I ached more than a Pygelian plague.” Willis BarnstoneHipponax Author:Hipponax