I pray for one gift: that I might merely touch Neoboule's h… - Archilochus of Paros

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I pray for one gift: that I might merely touch
Neoboule's hand.

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

:translated by Guy Davenport, Carmina Archilochi: The Fragments of Archilochus (1964)

Go take your cup and walk along the timber deck
Of our roaming ship; drain the hollow casks
Of all their red wine. How can we stay sober
on the watch when all the rest are drunk?

I pray for one gift: that I might merely touch Neoboule's hand. - Archilochus of Paros

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