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" O wretched men, why sit ye here ? fly to the ends of the earth, leaving your houses and the lofty summits of your wheel-shaped city. For neither does the head remain firm nor the body, nor the lowest feet nor the hands, nor is aught of the middle left,... "
The Greek anthology - Page 73
1918
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Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr

Herodotus, Henry Cary - Greece - 1848 - 634 pages
...Pythian, whose name was Aristonica, uttered the following warning : " O wretched men, why sit ye here ? fly to the ends of the earth, leaving your houses and the lofty summits of your wheel-shaped city. For neither does the head remain firm nor the body, nor the lowest...
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Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr, with a ...

Herodotus, Henry Cary - Greece - 1852 - 642 pages
...Pythian, whose name was Aristoniea, uttered the following warning : " O wretched men, why sit ye here ? fly to the ends of the earth, leaving your | houses and the lofty summits of your wheel-shaped city. For neither does the head remain firm nor the body, nor the lowest...
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Herodotus: Literally Translated from the Text of Baehr : with a Geographical ...

Herodotus, Henry Cary - Greece - 1885 - 628 pages
...Pythian, whose name was Aristonica, uttered the following warning : " O wretched men, why sit ye here ? fly to the ends of the earth, leaving your houses and the lofty summits of your wheel-shaped city. For neither does the head remain firm nor the body, nor the lowest...
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History of Greece, and of the Greek People, from the ..., Volume 2, Part 2

Victor Duruy - Greece - 1892 - 396 pages
...down, the Pythia, whose name was Aristouika, uttered this warning: ' 0 wretched men, why sit ye here ? Fly to the ends of the earth, leaving your houses and the lofty summits of your wheel-shaped city. For neither docs the head remain firm, nor the body, nor feet, nor...
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The Glory that was Greece: A Survey of Hellenic Culture & Civilization

John Clarke Stobart - Art, Greek - 1911 - 522 pages
...head ; to Athens in particular he sent the most terrible menaces: "O wretched men, why sit ye here? Fly to the ends of the earth, leaving your houses and the high citadel of your wheel-shaped city. . . . For fire and swift Ares, driving the Syrian chariot,...
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The Military Annals of Greece from the Earliest Time to the ..., Volume 1

William Lamartine Snyder - Greece - 1915 - 382 pages
...temple in answer to their humble petitions for light and guidance: "O wretched men, why sit ye here? Fly to the ends of the earth, leaving your houses and the lofty summits of your wheelshaped city. For neither does the head remain firm, nor the body nor the lowest...
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