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From a Seeond-Century Papyrus :
and garnering his plunderous crop, fills the
whole house both day and night with unmixed wine,
and wassailings have been brought in unto the place
where the Jaw is wont to speak τ and yon man forgot
them not, so soon as he had overthrown him; for he

set them a-going every night, and the bottom of the

flagon rang and rang again.t Aye, you that come of

such lineage? have the honour and glory enjoyed by

the free sons of noble parents . .

73

From the Same:
The sailors have cast all their cargo over-
board and are saving themselves as best they can.
Meanwhile, beaten with the roaring wave, the ship?

bethinks her that she no longer desires to fight with

storm and tempest but would willingly strike a reef

and go to the bottom. That is her plight; but as

for me, dear comrades, I would forget these things

1 when it was set down empty 2 ose. γενεᾶς : his father
was a Thracian, his mother a Lesbian ® of State

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