Aristophanes

Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle
four-cornered.

Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle
four-cornered.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before,
Advanced a stage or two upon that road
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before,
Advanced a stage or two upon that road
Which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
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Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,
Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.