Where is it from?

[Andy78]

And if anybody wants to make it easy for me, please quote a Greek writer (in Greek, if possible, because I probably won't have read the translation )

 

Well I've already done Homer's Iliad. So who know's Podga?

 

As they say, ask and ye shall receive.

[WhitePhoenix]

ok I'll make it easy for you. Its set in Britain

[Andy78]

Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon??

[WhitePhoenix]

 

Finally. Your turn Andy.

[Andy78]

My turn to be evil Thou hast angered the great and powerful Andy, and thy suffering will be sweet music unto mine ears.

 

Now for the line:

 

"For somehow this is tyranny's disease to trust no friends"

[podga]

I have asked and have received. But I'm curious to see if anybody else will recognize it. I'll give it until tomorrow before I respond

[Andy78]

Sorry Podga, I forgot you wanted it in Greek. I think this is right:

 

 

ἔνεστι γάρ πως τοῦτο τῇ τυρaννίδι νόσημa, τοῖς φίλοισι μὴ πεποιθένaι.

Edited August 12, 2012 by andy021278

[podga]

Sorry Podga, I forgot you wanted it in Greek. I think this is right:

 

 

ἔνεστι γάρ πως τοῦτο τῇ τυρaννίδι νόσημa, τοῖς φίλοισι μὴ πεποιθένaι.

 

Andy, you're too good to me!

[Zombie]

It's a stab in the dark - STAB! STAB! STAB!!! **Sheep blood and bits to clear up in aisle 6 please ...**

 

One of Aesop's Fables?

[Andy78]

Not Aesop. But it is about as musty, dusty, and fusty.

 

You are in the right time and place Zombie, but this is from a tragedy not a fable.

[Frostina]

i think i know! :o

gotta go check!

[Andy78]

**hides Frosty's musty, dusty, fusty old tomes**

[Frostina]

**hides Frosty's musty, dusty, fusty old tomes**

 

heyyy!

i need the reference books to confirm *which* Greek tragedy this one is! lol

[podga]

Bzzzt! Time's up!

 

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound.

 

**does happy dance**

[Zombie]

Is this the kind of tome folks wrap in a "Fifty Shades of Grey" dust jacket so's they don't get all embarrassed on the tube?

[Andy78]

Podga has the correct musty, dusty, fusty tome by the dead guy.

 

 

Is this the kind of tome folks wrap in a "Fifty Shades of Grey" dust jacket so's they don't get all embarrassed on the tube?

 

I'd probably wrap "Fifty Shades of Grey" in a "Seven Against Thebes" dust jacket, but hey that's just me

[podga]

A book this time:

 

"First the colours.

Then the humans.

That's usually how I see things.

Or at least, how I try."

[comicfan]

Well I know it isn't by an American author just by the use of colour. Hmm. Time to hit the shelves.

[Zombie]

Is the narrator an animal or an alien?

[Xtro]

Depends on how you consider Death, I suppose (says he, desperately trying to remember if it actually was that character...)

[Frostina]

the book's been done here before.

 

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

[podga]

You guys are way too good for me! Frosty got it!

[Frostina]

 

ooookay... My turn:

 

"The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity."

[Zombie]

No need to rummage thru our boxes of trash fiction for this one then

[Andy78]

Methinks tis by some dead guy who had English as a fourth or fifth language

Edited August 14, 2012 by andy021278