My conclusion…

'So you’re interested in obtaining work in Classical Athens, around 400 BC you say? Well, there are lots of opportunities to explore, but some real pitfalls as well. Here are a few pointers, tips and issues to consider!' antigonejournal.com/2023/11/how-ge…

Speaking of barns…well, Hesiod was a man of his time.

“Do not let a flaunting woman coax and deceive you: she is after your barn. The man who trusts a woman trusts a deceiver.”

[Works & Days 375]

Truth, and Love.

“When cycling sozzled, some clot
Insults me for being a snot.
‘Cunt!’ he shouts. ‘Wanker! You’ve
Got no manners!” To prove
It, I simply respond “Cut the “got””.

Superb!

Armand D'Angour If you want me to really blow your mind, William Cory's Heraclitus goes very nicely to the Match of the Day theme.

PS I realise the idiom may be recondite.

worldwidewords.org/qa-col5.html

Wesperos -> vesper (dusk) -> west

Armand D'Angour and people will moan about their AirBnb

Impressive. Presumably died the moment they were exposed to fresh air.

This is rather good from an unexpected quarter.

Found a comic actor of 400 BC on a vase in the Ashmolean.
Any relation Michael Spicer ?

I drop off after 20 mins if I try to read in bed.

Are yet the bluebells out in Wenallt Woods?
Do daffodils still throng in Glencoyne Bay?
Wild flowers, out of all of heaven’s goods,
Inspire mortal hearts to thank and pray.

Neil Batt Neil, I’m neither Israeli nor Jewish. Most Israelis I know oppose Netanyahu. Now a motion has been passed (unprecedented as far as I know) not to deliver their mail!

I hate, I love. Perhaps you'll ask 'can both of those be true?'
I can't say, but I feel it. And it's tearing me in two.

Catullus (85) the Tortured Poet.

The 22nd Fowler Lecture will be given by Victoria Rimell, on ‘Philology and Consolation Grieving with Seneca’ in the Ioannou Centre, Oxford, at 5pm on Thursday 2 May 2024.
Attendance is free, and listeners are invited to drinks afterwards in the Centre.