The passage, with which we are
all familiar, of an image to
an epigram is so ethically ex-
pensive that this must play a
large part in fatigue with the
President's endless proof of it.
Never seeing straight, one el-
ement of evidence, he frames a
whole world from fancies of the
timid wretch extracting his re-
venge by the propagation of myth.
Europa of Athens can be had for a drachma
with nothing to fear, no resistance,
clean sheets,
a fire in winter. So, my friend Zeus,
you had no business turning yourself
into a bull.
Antipater of Thessaloniki
11 BC - 15 AD
Edmund Keeley
translation
Peter Constantine, Rachel Hadas,
Edmund Keeley and Karen van Dyck
editors
The Greek Poets
Homer to the Present
op. cit.
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