In silence
Feb. 20th, 2013 11:26 pmNow from the well-fed swine black smokes aspire,
The bristly victims hissing o’er the fire:
The huge ox bellowing falls; with feebler cries
Expires the goat; the sheep in silence dies.
Pope's Iliad, 23
The bristly victims hissing o’er the fire:
The huge ox bellowing falls; with feebler cries
Expires the goat; the sheep in silence dies.
Pope's Iliad, 23
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Date: 2013-02-22 04:42 pm (UTC)Я посмотрел Батлера, Гнедича и Вересаева (до чего мог дотянуться) - там про молчание ягнят ничего нет. Поуп для красоты прибавил?
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