“Her breasts and her dark hair were perfume and even an old man would desire her.” Quote by Archilochos
“My girlfriend was Archeanassa from Kolophon and her wrinkles are scars of a sour love. Pain, horror. On her first voyage she loved a graceful young man, and passed through fire.” PlatoWillis Barnstone Author:Plato
“Passionate love relentlessly twists a chord under my heart and spreads deep mist on my eyes, stealing the unguarded brains from my head.” Willis BarnstoneArchilochos Author:Archilochos
“One and all, you have proclaimed Pittakos, the lowborn, to be tyrant of your lifeless and doomed land. Moreover, you deafen him with praise.” Willis BarnstoneAlkaios Author:Alkaios
“Eutychides the lyric poet is dead. Escape! you who inhabit the underworld, for he comes with odes, and orders thirteen lyres and twenty crates of music to burn beside him on his funeral pyre. Now Charon has you, for where can you escape with Eutychides established in Hell?” Willis BarnstoneLucillius Author:Lucillius
“Like the Mykonians, Perikles, you drink our unmixed wine and pay for nothing. You broke into this party, uninvited, and act as if among old friends. Your stomach has tricked the brains in your skull and now you are shameless.” Willis BarnstoneArchilochos Author:Archilochos
“Grief doesn't kill, love doesn't kill; but time kills everything, kills desire, kills sorrow, kills in the end the mind that feels them; wrinkels and softens the body while it still lives, tots it like a medlar, kills it too at last.” Time Book:Antic hay Source: Antic hay
“As the figtree on its rock feeds many crows, so this simple girl sleeps with strangers.” Willis BarnstoneArchilochos Author:Archilochos
“His penis is swollen like a donkey from Priene taking his fill of barley.” Willis BarnstoneArchilochos Author:Archilochos
“Many of them, I hope, will be dried up by the sharp rays of the sun in its zenith, by the sun in the time of the Dog Star.” Willis BarnstoneArchilochos Author:Archilochos