Falsafa

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

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    Golden brooch

    object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages

    golden brooch · golden brooches

    spoken of as

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    Golden Brooches1 mention

    Oedipus Tyrannus (Greek)

    for he tore from her raiment the golden brooches with which she had decorated herself, and lifting them struck his own eye-balls, uttering words like these:
    oedipus tyrannus

    in the texts

    PhoenissaeClassical · Greek

    A golden brooch, the object with which Oedipus blinds himself and which recurs as a marker of his suffering.

    Now when Oedipus, who endured so much, learned that he was married to his mother, he inflicted a dreadful slaughter upon his eyes, making the pupils bloody with a golden brooch.
    phoenissae
    O snow-capped Cithaeron, dear to Artemis, holy vale of leaves, crowded with wild animals, would that you had never reared the one exposed to die, Oedipus, Jocasta’s child, when as a baby he was cast forth from his home, marked with a golden brooch;
    phoenissae

    Oedipus TyrannusClassical · Greek

    The ornaments from Jocasta's clothing that Oedipus uses to blind himself.

    for he tore from her raiment the golden brooches with which she had decorated herself, and lifting them struck his own eye-balls, uttering words like these:
    oedipus tyrannus