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Updated: June 1, 2025
The city of Danaos and of his fifty bright-throned daughters, Argos the home of Hera, meet abode of gods, sing Graces! for by excellencies innumerable it is made glorious in the deeds of valiant men.
Stop a minute ah, this is it: 'Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes, which means, 'Beware of the enemy who makes you presents." "This diamond does not come from an enemy, monsieur," replied d'Artagnan, "it comes from the queen." "From the queen! Oh, oh!" said M. de Treville. "Why, it is indeed a true royal jewel, which is worth a thousand pistoles if it is worth a denier.
The daughters of Danaos were they who brought this rite out of Egypt and taught it to the women of the Pelasgians; then afterwards when all the inhabitants of Peloponnese were driven out by the Dorians, the rite was lost, and only those who were left behind of the Peloponnesians and not driven out, that is to say the Arcadians, preserved it.
The Grand Master if he be wise and content to give the law to France from the citadel of Rochelle." Biron stared at the speaker in astonishment at his frankness. "You are a bold man," he cried at last. "But timeo Danaos et dona ferentes," he continued bitterly. "You offer, sir, too much." "The offer is the King's." "And the conditions? The price?" "That you remain quiet, M. de Biron."
I went; but the line 'Timeo Danaos, &c., was ever forcing itself upon me as I walked musingly along to the house, which was a little distance out of town.
"Your game," said she pleasantly, "is extremely unkempt, but effective. I congratulate you. I owe you an apology for having misjudged you." He gave her a shrewd look. "I know little Latin and less Greek," said he, "but, 'timeo Danaos dona ferentes. And I've got no game. I'm telling you the straight truth, and I want you to help save me from Margaret and from myself. I love the girl.
We say with the wise men over there, 'Metuo Danaos et dons ferentes. We know our antagonists well, and trust their hearts no more than before, 'sed ultra posse non est esse. To accept more burthens than we can pay for will breed military mutiny; to tax the community above its strength will cause popular tumults, especially in 'rebus adversis, of which the beginnings were seen last year, and without a powerful army the enemy is not to be withstood.
"I could not help thinking to myself," said my member, "that at that conference there must have been many men of sufficient classical reading to say to themselves, 'Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes." In which surmise he was quite right. Except perhaps for "Tempus fugit," "verbum sap.," "Arma virumque," and "Quis custodiet," there is no better known relic of antiquity.
The object of much insane obloquy, because disposed to secure that blessing for his country on the basis of freedom and independence, he was not disposed to trust in the sincerity of the archdukes, or the Spanish court, or the French king. "Timeo Danaos etiam dona ferentes," he had lately said to Aerssens.
An author who seeks to determine prehistoric events by references to Kadmos, and Danaos, and Abraham, is at once liable to the suspicion of holding very inadequate views as to the character of the epoch which may properly be termed the "youth of the world." Often in reading Mr.
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