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Updated: May 28, 2025

Happy ignorance, that sees not what perils now forbid love and such toys! Hera. Is your name Zeus, or not? and, if so, what else can possibly annoy you but love? Zeus. Hera, our condition is most precarious; it is touch- and-go, as they call it, whether we are still to enjoy reverence and honour from the earth, or be utterly neglected and become of no account. Hera.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

Leaf thinks that, in the case of the Homeric poems, this idea "is not wholly borne out by the facts." In fact, Mr. Leaf's hypothesis, like Helbig's, exhibits a come- and-go between the theory that his late poets clung close to tradition and so kept true to ancient details of life, and the theory that they did quite the reverse in many cases. Of this frequent examples will occur. So far Mr.

Andrew Lang - Homer and His Age