Suda, Tau 1197 “Turoknêstis: a cheesegrater. A type of knife. There is also a proverb: “I will not position myself like a lioness on a cheese-grater”* This means “in the way a lioness would”, and it is a shameful and whorish sexual position. A cheese-grater is a knife. On the hilts of some kitchen knives…

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21.01.2025

The Tyranny is Our Fault Too – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Anonymous of Iamblichus 12-14 "Tyranny happens—even though it is so great an evil in scope and kind—from nothing else but lawlessness. All people who think incorrectly believe that tyranny develops from some other cause and that people lose their freedom without being responsible for it because they were forced by the tyrant who came to…

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22.01.2025

The Ship of State, Operated by Fools – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Schol. ad. Od. 8.17 (On why Odysseus is only responsible for the companions in his particular ship) “According to the proverb “Common ship, common safety” κατὰ τὴν παροιμίαν “κοινὴ ναῦς κοινὴ σωτηρία,” Sophocles, Antigone 175–190 (Creon speaking) “It is impossible to really learn a man’s mind, thought and opinion before he’s been initiated into the offices and…

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23.01.2025

“May He Suffer What He Did To Others” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Historia Augusta, Commodus Antoninus 19 “Let the memory of murderer and gladiator be destroyed; have the statues of the murder and the gladiator be destroyed. Let the memory of the disgusting gladiator be destroyed. Send the gladiator to the butcher-block. Listen, Caesar: have that killer dragged with the hook. Have that senate-slayer dragged with a…

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