cleodamus

Updated: May 20, 2025

Say, which does thy heart choose? For our leisure lends us time to gossip. Myrson. It beseems not mortals to judge the works of God; for sacred are all these things, and all are sweet, yet for thy sake I will speak out, Cleodamus, and declare what is sweeter to me than the rest.

of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion - Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose

But while the conquerors abandoned themselves to the license of plunder and intemperance, their fleet, that lay with a slender guard in the harbor of Piræus, was unexpectedly attacked by the brave Daxippus, who, flying with the engineer Cleodamus from the sack of Athens, collected a hasty band of volunteers, peasants as well as soldiers, and in some measure avenged the calamities of his country.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1

Cleodamus, one of the engineers employed by the emperor's orders to fortify the maritime cities against the Goths, had already begun to repair the ancient walls, fallen to decay since the time of Scylla. The efforts of his skill were ineffectual, and the barbarians became masters of the native seat of the muses and the arts.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1

'With one another other sisters sleep, but I lie alone, and alone, maiden, dost thou lie, both being girls unwedded of like age, both fair, and single both in bed do we sleep. The wicked Nysa, the crafty nurse it is that cruelly severs me from thee. For not of thee have I . . . Cleodamus and Myrson discuss the charms of the seasons, and give the palm to a southern spring. Cleodamus.

of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion - Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose