The golden lamb · Atlas

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golden lamb1 mention

Orations (Greek)

and indeed they say that the most unfortunate of them had a golden lamb.

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OrationsImperial · Greek

Mythical golden lamb associated with the house of Atreus (Thyestes), symbol of wealth and doom.

and indeed they say that the most unfortunate of them had a golden lamb.

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ElectraClassical · Greek

The miraculous golden-fleeced lamb at the center of the Atreus-Thyestes feud recounted by the Chorus in the second stasimon.

the flute, handmaid of the Muse’s song, sounded its note sweetly, and lovely songs of the golden lamb swelled forth, saying that Thyestes had the luck;

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The story remains in old legends that Pan, the keeper of wild beasts, breathing sweet-voiced music on his well-joined pipes, once brought from its tender mother on Argive hills a lamb with beautiful golden fleece.

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StatesmanClassical · Greek

The token young Socrates first recalls in connection with the Atreus-Thyestes legend, before the Stranger clarifies he means the reversal of the sun instead.

You refer, I suppose, to the token of the golden lamb.

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