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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 202 0 Browse Search
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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 18 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Aristophanes, Birds (ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.). You can also browse the collection for Libya (Libya) or search for Libya (Libya) in all documents.

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Aristophanes, Birds (ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.), line 708 (search)
ChorusAnd what important services do not the birds render to mortals! First of all, they mark the seasons for them, springtime, winter, and autumn.Does the screaming crane migrate to Libya, —it warns the husbandman to sow, the pilot to take his ease beside his tiller hung up in his dwelling, and Orestes to weave a tunic, so that the rigorous cold may not drive him any more to strip other folk. When the kite reappears, he tells of the return of spring and of the period when the fleece of the sheep must be clipped. Is the swallow in sight? All hasten to sell their warm tunic and to buy some light clothing. We are your Ammon, Delphi, Dodona, your Phoebus Apollo. Before undertaking anything, whether a business transaction, a marriage, or the purchase of food, you consult the birds by reading the omens, and you give this name of omen to all signs that tell of the future.With you a word is an omen, you call a sneeze an omen, a meeting an omen, an unknown sound an omen, a slave or an ass an
Aristophanes, Birds (ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.), line 1118 (search)
the Braggartian, and Theogenes could pass each other in their chariots, even if they were drawn by steeds as big as the Trojan horse. Pisthetaerus That's fine! Messenger Its length is one hundred stadia; I measured it myself. Pisthetaerus A decent length, by Poseidon! And who built such a wall? Messenger Birds —birds only; they had neither Egyptian brickmaker, nor stonemason, nor carpenter; the birds did it all themselves; I could hardly believe my eyes. Thirty thousand cranes came from Libya with a supply of stones, intended for the foundations. The water-rails chiselled them with their beaks. Ten thousand storks were busy making bricks; plovers and other water fowl carried water into the air. Pisthetaerus And who carried the mortar? Messenger Herons, in hods. Pisthetaerus But how could they put the mortar into the hods? Messenger Oh! it was a truly clever invention; the geese used their feet like spades; they buried them in the pile of mortar and then emptied them into the