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"Ancient greek" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the modern tongues—that is to say, German, French, Italian, English, and Spanish; by the aid of ancient Greek I learned modern Greek—I don't speak it so well as I could wish, but I am still trying to ...

— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... very special kind of writing in ancient Egypt, and generally kept for important occasions. The lines in the middle give the same words, but in the ordinary handwriting used for correspondence in ancient Egypt; and last of all is found a translation of the Egyptian words written in ancient Greek. ...

— The Bible in its Making - The most Wonderful Book in the World • Mildred Duff

... months, and therefore keeps no record of the lunar months. He relies almost entirely upon observation of the slight changes of the sun's altitude. His observations are made by the help of an instrument closely resembling the ancient Greek gnomon, known as TUKAR DO or ASO ...

— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall

... light on high; Magicians stave their heads in dust, The vermin feed on reeking bones, Each gnome sobs to a green-horn'd toad. And monarchs of this dungeoned sky Untomb each son in sacred trust As vypers sound their rasping tones, Farewell the ancient Greek's abode! Then spectres of the tower'd night, (Vultures of the sun, moon and stars) And bezzling parasites of dawn, Haunt ichnolite of mourners cold; Then purple sins bloom in the light As vypers drive queens in bright cars; Where dragons root the blistere'd lawn, There reigns a curdling ...

— Betelguese - A Trip Through Hell • Jean Louis de Esque

... contemporaries (now veterans) snatched at minor social problems rather than write entirely without any wider purpose than to win money and fame. One of them expressed to me his envy of the ancient Greek playwrights because the Athenians asked them, not for some 'new and original' disguise of the half-dozen threadbare plots of the modern theatre, but for the deepest lesson they could draw from the familiar and sacred legends of their country. 'Let us all,' ...

— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw

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