TFBT: Quotes April 2018

 It is said that after the death of Sophocles, when the Lacedaemonians invaded Attica, their commander saw in a vision Dionysus, who ordered him to honor [tīmân], with all the customary honors [tīmai] of the dead, the new Siren [Seirēn]. It seemed to him that the dream [onar] referred to Sophocles and his poetry [poiēsis], and down to the present day people are used to liken to a Siren whatever is enchanting [epagōgon] in both poetry [poiēmata] and prose Pausanias 1.21.1 

"That dog can hunt."

"If there's no old farts when you start a new job, then it is not a good profession to get into." OSHA Inspector

 “Oh my, how mortals hold us gods responsible! ₃₃ For they say that their misfortunes come from us. But they get their sufferings, ₃₄ beyond what is fated, by way of their own acts of recklessness.” Od. 1.32-34

Pindar Pythian 8.95–96, σκιᾶς ὄναρ | ἄνθρωπος ‘man is the dream of a shade’ 

"But time is long, and perhaps similar things may occur again." Paus. 10.12.11

Aeneas seized a great stone, so huge that two men, as men now are, would be unable to lift it, but Aeneas wielded it quite easily.). Book 20

Iliad 20 “(Achilles) looked fiercely on radiant Hector and said, “Draw near, that you may meet your doom the sooner.” [430]”

Achilles sprang to his feet, led us by the hand into the house, placed us at table, and set before us such hospitable entertainment as is right [themis] for guests. Iliad 11.777

Iliad 12.200] for they had seen a sign from the gods when they had essayed to cross it—a soaring eagle that flew skirting the left wing of their army of warriors, with a monstrous blood-red snake in its talons still alive and struggling to escape.