 | Sophocles - Greek drama - 1871 - 616 pages
...wreaths of their blossoms. ./ CEDIPUS AT COLONOS. 85 Kephisos' wandering1 streams j1 They fail notxfrom their spring, but evermore, Swift-rushing into birth,...it in slight esteem, Nor Aphrodite with her golden reins.2 STROPH. II. And in it grows a marvel such as ne'er On Asia's soil I heard, Nor the great Dorian... | |
 | Sophocles, Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1880 - 612 pages
...won garlands of the ears of corn instead of wreaths of their blossoms. Kephisos' wandering streams ;' They fail not from their spring, but evermore, Swift-rushing...slight esteem, Nor Aphrodite with her golden reins.' STBOPH. II. And in it grows a marvel such as ne'er On Asia's soil I heard, Nor the great Dorian isle... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - Greek literature - 1890 - 938 pages
...mightiest Goddesses ; And crocus golden-eyed ; And still unslumbering flow Kephisos' wandering streams ; They fail not from their spring, but evermore, Swift-rushing...slight esteem. Nor Aphrodite with her golden reins. STROPH. II. And in it grows a marvel such as ne'er On Asia's soil I heard, Nor the great Dorian isle... | |
 | Aeschylus, Sophocles - 1902 - 514 pages
...Goddesses ; l And crocus golden- eyed ; And still unslumbering flow Kephisos' wandering streams ;2 They fail not from their spring, but evermore, Swift-rushing...it in slight esteem, Nor Aphrodite with her golden reins.3 1 The poet, himself initiated in the mysteries of Eleusis, between which and the worship of... | |
 | Aeschylus, Sophocles - 1902 - 654 pages
...mightiest Goddesses ; l And crocus golden-eyed ; And still unslumbering flow Kephisos' wandering streams ;2 They fail not from their spring, but evermore, Swift-rushing...their minstrel choirs, Hold it in slight esteem, Nor Aphrod1te with her golden reins.3 1 The poet, himself initiated in the mysteries of Eleusis, between... | |
 | Harold North Fowler - Greek literature - 1902 - 532 pages
...golden-eyed ; And still unslumbering flow Cephissus' wandering streams; They fail not from their springs, but evermore, Swift-rushing into birth, Over the plain...do the Muses in their minstrel choirs, Hold it in light esteem, Nor Aphrodite with her golden reins. The brief summaries here given show that the plots... | |
 | Harold North Fowler - Greek literature - 1902 - 524 pages
...golden-eyed; And still unslumbering flow Ccphissus' wandering streams ; They fail not from their springs, but evermore, Swift-rushing into birth, Over the plain...do the Muses in their minstrel choirs, Hold it in light esteem, Nor Aphrodite with her golden reins. The brief summaries here given show that the plots... | |
 | Charles Forster Smith - Thompson, Maurice, 1844-1901 - 1909 - 496 pages
...mightiest Goddesses; And the crocus golden-eyed; And still unslumbering flow Kephisos' wandering streams ; They fail not from their spring, but evermore, Swift-rushing...it in slight esteem, Nor Aphrodite with her golden reins.7 (Edipus had not long to wait for the promised sign from the sky, a thunder-peal from Zeus.... | |
 | Delphian Society - Civilization - 1911 - 566 pages
...golden-eyed; And still unslumbcring flow Ccphissus' wandering streams ; They fail not from their springs, but evermore, Swift-rushing into birth, Over the plain...do the Muses in their minstrel choirs, Hold it in light esteem, Nor Aphrodite with her golden reins." ' 1 (Edipus at Colonus. Sophocles was carefully... | |
 | Charles Alexander Robinson - History - 1959 - 180 pages
...mightiest Goddesses; And crocus golden-eyed; And still unslumbering flow Cephisus' wandering streams; They fail not from their spring, but evermore, Swift-rushing...slight esteem, Nor Aphrodite with her golden reins. Strophe 2 And in it grows a marvel such as ne'er On Asia's soil I heard, Nor the great Dorian isle... | |
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Cephisus' wandering streams; They fail not from their spring, but evermore, Swift-rushing into birth, Over the plain they sweep, The land of broad, full breast, With clear and stainless wave: Nor do the Muses in their minstrel choirs, Hold it in slight... 