Sailors · Atlas · Falsafa

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Orations (Greek) · Republic (Greek)

And when the sailors put in and the matter was brought to proof, they were put to death;

oration 37 ¶

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OrationsImperial · Greek

Crew who threatened to kill Arion for his wealth and were later executed when the crime came to light.

And when the sailors put in and the matter was brought to proof, they were put to death;

oration 37 ¶

And when Arion had ceased and the sailors yielded nothing soft, he flung himself into the deep, and a dolphin coming under bore the singer to Taenarum as he was, with his equipment.

oration 37 ¶

For he was so beloved of the gods that, sailing up hither with great wealth which he had earned about Tarentum and the Greeks there, when he was about to be thrown into the sea by the sailors on account, doubtless, of this very wealth, he begged them before the throwing to let him sing — just as they say the swans, when about to die and foreseeing death, embark their soul as it were upon the song as upon a chariot.

oration 37 ¶

OrestesClassical · Greek

Seafarers who will be protected by the newly divine Helen and her brothers.

along with those Zeus-born sons of Tyndareus, she will be a guardian of the sea, for the good of sailors.

orestes ¶

Helen, whom all your eagerness failed to destroy, when you were seeking to anger Menelaus, I saved her and snatched her from beneath your sword at the bidding of father Zeus, for she, his child, must be immortal, and take her seat with Castor and Polydeuces in the enfolding air, a savior to mariners.

orestes ¶

EpigramsClassical · Greek

Sea-roving people addressed by the speaker and urged to show reverence to Zeus by taking him aboard.

Strangers, a contrary wind has caught you:

epigrams ¶

but even now take me aboard and you shall make your voyage.

epigrams ¶

Sailors, who rove the seas and whom a hateful fate has made as the shy sea-fowl, living an unenviable life, observe the reverence due to Zeus who rules on high, the god of strangers;

epigrams ¶

De Rerum NaturaHellenistic · Latin

Seafarers cited as dreaming of struggling against the winds.

Sailors to live in combat with the winds,

chapter 4 ¶

RepublicClassical · Greek

The mutinous crew of the allegorical ship who seize control from the true navigator and mistake flattery for skill.

But you will make no mistake in likening our present political rulers to the sort of sailors we are just describing, and those whom these call useless and star-gazing ideologists to the true pilots.

chapter 6 ¶

And sometimes, if they fail and others get his ear, they put the others to death or cast them out from the ship, and then, after binding and stupefying the worthy shipmaster with mandragora or intoxication or otherwise, they take command of the ship, consume its stores and, drinking and feasting, make such a voyage of it as is to be expected from such, and as if that were not enough, they praise a …

chapter 6 ¶