Desiderius Erasmus. Mopsus I see ; but how goes everything with you ? Dromo As it does with those whom heaven dislikes . Mopsus God avert this omen ! What are you doing ? Dromo Loafing . What you see : nothing at all . 5 Mopsus Loafing's ...
... Mopsus , but the Ion- ian Greeks at Colophon had a special relationship with Calchas . It was , then , particularly appealing for the Aeolian controllers of Claros to claim that Mopsus had outwitted Calchas and caused his death on the ...
Michael Flower. Mopsus be the same person as the Greek seer of late Bronze Age myth named Mopsus ? Or was Mopsus a hereditary name among the kings of Cilicia ? And if so , should we be thinking in terms of an eighth - century Cilician ...
... Mopsus' song (vv. 10–11): Phyllidis ignes, Alconis laudes, iurgia Codri12. Mopsus however chooses a different theme, namely %kcea D\vmidor, i.e., the primary subject mat- ter of pastoral song and, what is more, the focus of the ...
... Mopsus answered without hesitation , “ plus an Aegine- tan bushel , carefully weighed ... and a single fig left over . " Calchas laughed at the temerity of Mopsus , but when the tree was picked clean , Mopsus ' figure proved accurate ...
Jan Bremmer. explanation is perhaps Mopsus' connection with the oracle of Klaros, the Greek word for lot, near Kolophon. A sixth-century poem, the Hesiodic Melampodia, relates that Mopsus had met and defeated Calchas, who subsequently ...
... Mopsus was also supposed to have taken place in Cilicia . 1 These scattered , historical and mythological data ... Mopsus and Pamphylia could explain , in that case , the fact that the Luwian population groups held their ground ...
... Mopsus grant me this ? " " Mopsus ! " he answered , " See'st thou not that he Condemns the speech of that thy Comedy , As by the lips of women trite and worn , Rejected by the nymphs of Castaly ? " " So is it , " I replied , and then ...
... Mopsus , who was interred in Africa , 877 , Clem . A- appeased a great many kinds of pains , and for the most part cured them . That Hifto- rian has committed a fault here , which is common to him with other authors ( C ) . As to the ...
... Mopsus , a strange figure of Greek legend , a seer and prince of Colophon , a city where a Mycenaean settlement certainly existed , as shown by excavations.3 Mopsus , son of Rhakius of Clarus and Manto , daughter of Teiresias , was ...