Showing posts with label Archilochus. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Charon the Smith

By Archilochus

Nothing to me the life of Gyges and his glut
Of gold.  I neither envy nor admire him, as
I watch his life and what he does. I want no pride
Of tyranny; it lies far off from where I look.