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Holofernes

noun
1.
(Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith.





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"Holofernes" Quotes from Famous Books



... fact, has hit upon the wrong. It is fatal to freeze a moment of time into an eternity of writing. His Judith will never strike: her arm is palsied where it swings. The Damoclean sword is a fine incident for poetry; but Holofernes was no Damocles, and if he had been, it were intolerable to cast his experience in bronze. Donatello has essayed that thing impossible for sculpture, to arrest a moment instead of denote a permanent attribute. Art is adjectival, is it not, O Donatello? ...
— Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Esther Singleton


Words linked to "Holofernes" :   general, full general, Apocrypha


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