Important Quotations Explained
1. Here
Phaëthon lies, who drove the Sun-god's car.
Greatly
he failed, but he had greatly dared.
2. .
. . if I must slay
The joy of my house, my
daughter.
A father's hands
Stained
with dark streams flowing
From blood of a
girl
Slaughtered before the altar.
3. We
stand at the same point of pain.
We too are
slaves.
Our children are crying, calling
to us with tears, “Mother, I am all alone.
To
the dark ships now they drive me,
And I cannot
see you, Mother.”
4. “What
creature,” the Sphinx asked him, “goes on four feet in the morning,
on two at noonday, on three in the evening?”
5. [The
Roman race] left to other nations such things as art and science,
and ever remembered that they were destined to bring under their
empire the peoples of earth, to impose the rule of submissive nonresistance,
to spare the humbled and to crush the proud.
