thyestes's

Updated: May 1, 2025

Can the proposing and thinking of such a life make Thyestes's grief the less, or Æetes's, of whom I spoke above, or Telamon's, who was driven from his country to penury and banishment? in wonder at whom men exclaimed thus: Is this the man surpassing glory raised? Is this that Telamon so highly praised By wondering Greece, at whose sight, like the sun, All others with diminish'd lustre shone?

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth