Hipponax
People who've drunk neat wine don’t care a damn. 67
Two days in a woman’s life give greatest pleasure: those of her wedding and her funeral. 68
and may he there endure a multitude of woes, eating the bread of a slave. I hope they find him frozen stiff, and from the brine covered in seaweed and slime, his teeth a-chatter, like a dog from lack of strength lying with face in the sand right by the water-line, under the breaking waves. That’s what I’d like to see done to my betrayer who has trampled on his oaths, who was my friend in the past. 115
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