Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Licymnius

    mythological figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages

    in the texts

    OlympianClassical · Greek

    Bastard brother of Alcmena, killed in anger by Tlepolemus with a staff of olive-wood.

    For indeed, striking Licymnius, the bastard brother of Alcmena, with a staff of hard olive-wood as he came out of the chamber of Midea, the founder of this land once killed that man, in anger.
    chapter 7
    In the foot race the best at running the straight course with his feet was the son of Licymnius, Oeonus, who had come from Midea at the head of an army.
    chapter 10

    BirdsClassical · Greek

    A mythological figure said to have been struck down by Zeus's lightning, invoked by Iris as a warning precedent for Pisthetaerus's defiance.

    the lightning would strike you as it did Licymnius and consume both your body and the porticos of your palace.
    birds

    PhaedrusClassical · Greek

    A rhetorician credited with coining terminology for beautiful diction, used by Polus.

    And what shall we say of Polus and his shrines of learned speech, such as duplication and sententiousness and figurativeness, and what of the names with which Licymnius presented him to effect beautiful diction?
    phaedrus