| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: drinking, while she cares for another's house.'
Then wise Telemachus answered, and said: 'Nay by Zeus,
Agelaus, and by the griefs of my father, who far away
methinks from Ithaca has perished or goes wandering, in
nowise do I delay my mother's marriage; nay, I bid her be
married to what man she will, and withal I offer gifts
without number. But I do indeed feel shame to drive her
forth from the hall, despite her will, by a word of
compulsion; God forbid that ever this should be.'
So spake Telemachus, but among the wooers Pallas Athene
roused laughter unquenchable, and drave their wits
The Odyssey |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
The Anabasis 7
The Hellenica 7
The Cyropaedia 8
The Memorabilia 4
The Symposium 1
Anabasis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: his castle munitions of war sufficient for forty thousand men.
He had accumulated these weapons in anticipation of an alliance
against him among his enemies. But he bethought him that the proconsul
might believe, or assert, that he had collected this armoury in order
to attack the Romans; so he hastened to offer explanations of all that
Vitellius had observed.
Some of these things did not belong to him at all, he said: many of
them were necessary to defend the place against brigands and
marauders, especially the Arabs. Many of the objects in the vault had
been the property of his father, and he had allowed them to remain
untouched. As he spoke, he managed to get in advance of the proconsul
Herodias |
