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Classical Insults
Gods!
How the son denigrates from the sire
Homer
When a man dies, all his glory among men dies also
Stesichorus
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance
Aesop
He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued
Ibid
One
more such victory and we are lost
Phyrrhus,
on beating the Romans at the Battle of the Asculum
Let
them hate, so long as they fear
Accius
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