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| Eugène Lepoittevin Shipwrecked Mariners threatened by Polar Bears 1839 oil on canvas Musée de Picardie, Amiens |
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| Georg Lemberger God sending a Plague of Flies ca. 1532-36 woodcut Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Louis de Planet Jews led into Captivity in Babylon ca. 1843 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Adalbert Trillhaase Lamentation of the Jews in Captivity ca. 1925 oil on canvas Clemens-Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany |
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| Hubert Robert Demolition of the Château of Meudon 1806 oil on canvas Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Pietro de Angelis Fire in an Antique City ca. 1785-95 watercolor and gouache on paper Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| James Ensor Demons that Torment Me 1895 hand-colored etching Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi after Polidoro da Caravaggio Saturn castrating his father Caelus (Uranus) ca. 1660 etching (after now-lost outdoor fresco in Rome) Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Luca Giordano Apollo and Marsyas 1637 oil on canvas Museo di Capodimonte, Naples |
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| Balthasar Permoser Apollo and Marsyas ca. 1675-80 ivory relief Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Matteo di Giovanni St Bartholomew (carrying his flayed skin) ca. 1480-85 tempera on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Johannes Zainer Theoxena and Poris and his Sons slaying themselves to avoid Capture 1473 hand-colored woodcut (illustration to De Mulieribus Claris of Boccaccio) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Joachim von Sandrart Central Figure of Laocoön Group ca. 1632-35 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Hans Baldung The Three Fates ca. 1513 woodcut Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Nikolaus Solis after Rosso Fiorentino The Three Fates ca. 1570 etching and engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Anonymous Florentine Artist Hell ca. 1470 engraving (after fresco in Pisa by Buonamico Buffalmacco) Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
The high-born virgin Justice, patroness of cities, does not turn her face away from gold that is associated with piety, but the very scales of Zeus with which he weighs every law of life are of solid gold. "Then did the Father hold out the scales of gold," if thou hast not forgotten the beauties of Homer.
Thrice I reigned as tyrant, and as many times did the people of Erechtheus expel me and thrice recall me, Pisistratus, great in council, who collected the works of Homer formerly sung in fragments. For that man of gold was our fellow citizen, if we Athenians colonized Smyrna.
Painter, thou stealest the form only, and canst not, trusting in thy colours, capture the voice.
Thy love is counterfeit and thou lovest from fear and by force. But nothing is more treacherous than such love.
If thou lovest me, love me indeed, and do me no evil, making friendship the beginning of injury. For I say that for all men open enmity is much better than deceptive friendship. They say, too, that for seafaring ships sunken reefs are worse than visible rocks.
We saw at supper the great wisdom of the Cynic, that bearded beggar with the staff. To begin with he abstained from pulse and radishes, saying that virtue should not be the belly's slave. But when he saw before his eyes a snow-white sow's womb with sharp sauce, a dish that soon stole away his prudent mind, he asked for some unexpectedly, and really started eating, saying that a sow's womb does no harm to virtue.
– from Book XI (Convivial and Satirical Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)