One big thing I understand: I know how to spit back with bl… - Archilochus of Paros

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One big thing I understand:
I know how to spit back with black venom
against the man who wrongs me.

Archilochus of Paros

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Archilochus [Ἀρχίλοχος] (c. 680 BC – c. 645 BC), also rendered as Archilochos or Arkhilokhus, was a Greek lyric poet and mercenary from the island of Paros in the Archaic period.

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Native Name: Ἀρχίλοχος

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I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.

: "Archilochos: To His Soul" : A fragment as translated from the Greek by Jon Corelis

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one, but that is the best of all.

One big thing I understand: I know how to spit back with black venom against the man who wrongs me. - Archilochus of Paros

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