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ASTERIUS, COMMENTARII IN PSALMOS (HOMILIAE 31) Homili 14.7-8 JUST AS THE CICADA IS A SEEDLESS SON AND KNOWS THE EARTH AS A MOTHER BUT KNOWS NO FATHER, THUS CHRIST KNOWS THE VIRGIN MOTHER, BUT HIS FATHER THE SEWER HE KNOWS NOT. AND JUST AS THE CICADA, BORN OF THE EARTH, STEALS AWAY FROM THE MANY AND LIES ON THE GROUND AS IF LOWLY AND INSIGNIFICANT, THOUGH ONCE HE HAS A DRINK OF DEW AND CLIMBS UP A TREE, HIS SINGING IS RENOWN OVER THE LAND, THUS CHRIST WAS BORN LIKE THE CICADA, LOWLY.

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SOUDA-ARCHILOCHOS (i. 376.11.Adlez) = AELIAN. fr.80 Herchez The gods do not forget the great ones even after they are dead. Thus, Pythios Apollo blessed Archilochas, a poet of noble bearing (provided one removes the foul language and the aspersions, as if cleansing him from a stain) when he died on the battlefield, where everyone’s fortune is equal to everyone else’s. And when his killer, a man called Kalondas with the nickname Korakas (Crow), went to the god with a petition, Pythia forbade him to enter consid- ering him unclean, with the famous pronouncement “You have killed the servant of the Muses: exit the temple”. To defend him- self, Kalondas invoked the circumstances saying he was obliged to either kill or be killed and asked the god not to despise him be- cause it was his fate to survive and he cursed his choice of killing the opponent rather than being killed. And the god took pity on him and orders him to go to Tainaron where Tettix was buried and to assuage the soul of the son of Telesikles (the father of Archilo- chus) and mollify it with libations. He obeyed and was spared the wrath of the god. TO GO TO TAINARON WHERE TETTIX HAS BEEN BURIED AND AP- PEASE THE SOUL OF THE SON OF TELESICLES: ΕΛΘΕΙΝ ΕΣ ΤΑΙΝΑΡΟΝ, ΕΝΘΑ ΤΕΤΤΙΞ ΤΕΘΑΠΤΑΙ, ΚΑΙ ΜΕΙΛΙΞΑΣΘΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΤΟΥ ΤΕΛΕΣΙΚΛΕΙΟΥ ΠΑΙΔΟΣ ΨΥΧΗΝ. ΘΕΙΝ ΤΑΙ ΤΕΤ ΤΙΞ ΤΕ ΤΑΙ ΘΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΤΟΥ ΤΕ ΤΕΙΝ ΤΑΙ ΤΕΤ ΤΙΞ ΤΕ ΤΑΙ ΤΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΤΟΥ ΤΕ ΤΕΙΝ ΤΑΙ ΤΕΤ ΤΙΞ ΤΕ ΤΑΙ ΤΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΤΟΥ ΤΕ ΤΕΙ ΤΑΙ ΤΕΤ ΤΙΞ ΤΕ ΤΑΙ ΤΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΤΟΥ ΤΕ ΤΕ ΤΑΙ ΤΕΤ ΤΙΞ ΤΕ ΤΑΙ ΤΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΤΟΥ ΤΕ

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Let us wait let us not start the days let them stay behind always forward let us never spit out the cool pip

Τρι και Τρι Τρι και Τρι- Τρι- τι πικρή που ‘ναι η ζωή Τι γλυκιά και τι πικρή- Τρι και Τρι Τρι και Τρι Chirpy Chirpy Cheep – how bitter life can be How bitter and how sweet – Chirpy Chirpy Cheep

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