Fighting men are the city's fortress.
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking. - Alcaeus
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
- Alcaeus
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all. - Alcaeus
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity. - Alcaeus
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
Wine is a peep-hole on a man. - Alcaeus
Wine is a peep-hole on a man.
Fighting men are the city's fortress. - Alcaeus
Plant no tree sooner than the vine. - Alcaeus
Plant no tree sooner than the vine.
Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence. - Alcaeus
Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.
Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old. - Alcaeus
Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters. - Alcaeus
The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.
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