"Some say a host of cavalry, some say infantry. Some say a host of ships, is the loveliest thing Upon this dark earth; but I say It's whatever you love."
— Beauty

January 1, 1970

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Sappho, in Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta, ed. Edgar Lobel and Denys Page (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955), no. 16. Translated in Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome, ed. Michael Grant and Rachel Kitzinger (NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988), vol. 3, p. 1443