I live here miserable and broken with desire, pierced throu… - Archilochus of Paros

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I live here miserable and broken with desire,
pierced through to the bones by the bitterness
of this god-given painful love.

O comrade, this passion makes my limbs limp
and tramples over 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 live here miserable and broken with desire, pierced through to the bones by the bitterness of this god-given painful love. O comrade, this passion… - Archilochus of Paros

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