Who Said That? (Greek) Flashcards
Cast behind you the bones of your mother.
Parnassus oracle
Building is better than killing.
Cadmus
See! I have brought you that which you desired.
Perseus
What had been fated came to pass.
Greek saying
I will get you some of the apples if you will hold up the sky for me.
Atlas
Beware of the man who wears but one sandal.
oracle of Apollo
If you are a man, lift that stone.
Aethra
If my death will help the Greeks, I am ready to die.
Iphigenia
I care nothing for gods! But as for men, let me show you how much I like them.
Cyclops
Loose me! Loose me! I must go nearer that music!
Odysseus
Bring up this child for Sparta.
order of Sparta
Come back with this or upon this.
Spartan mothers
Sparta’s citizens are her walls.
Lycurgus
Who is the happiest man you have ever known?
Croesus
I call no man happy until he is dead. When I hear whether or not your life has ended nobly, then I shall know whether or not you were really happy.
Solon
Men of Athens! See what my enemies have done to me because I am a friend of the people.
Pisistratus
There you will find both earth and water for your master.
the Spartans
Rejoice! Rejoice! We are victors!
Pheidipides
So much the better, we shall fight in the shade.
Spartan soldier
Stranger, tell the Spartans that we lie here in obedience to their commands.
Spartan memorial
We fight for all.
Greeks at Salamis
I have never seen him but I am tired of hearing him called “the Just”.
Athenian to Aristides
Athens and Sparta are the two legs of Greece.
Cimon
Because Cimon is already with me.
oracle of Zeus
That of which I am proudest is that no Athenian ever wore mourning because of anything done by me.
Pericles
What you praise in my life has been due to fortune. I deserve no credit for it.
Pericles
When the lion’s skin is too short, you must patch it with that of a fox.
Lysander
What! Would you have me die guilty?
Socrates
You can bury my body; you cannot put me into a grave.
Socrates
My judges, you go now to your homes, I to prison and to death. But which of the two is the better lot, God only knows.
Socrates
Thus died the man who was in death the noblest we have ever known, in life, the wisest and the best.
Plato
Victory!
Greeks at Cunaxa
I see the man.
Cyrus
And where can the good and the noble be found?
Socrates
Leuctra and Mantinea are daughters who will keep my name alive.
Epaminondas
I have lived long enough.
Epaminondas
I appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober.
Macedonian woman
My father will leave me nothing to do!
Alexander
To the strongest.
Alexander
Do not be discouraged but conquer your difficulties.
actor to Demosthenes
Let us be equally energetic and unselfish and just, then we shall triumph.
Demosthenes
I insist that even if it had been known beforehand to all the world that Philip would succeed and that we should fail, not even then ought Athens to have taken any other course if she had any regard for her own glory or for her past or for the ages to come.
Demosthenes
Sell me to someone who wishes a master.
Diogenes
Never a day without a line.
Apelles
I am looking for a man.
Diogenes
If I were not going to conquer the world, I should like to have the power which Diogenes has to conquer himself.
Alexander
Another such victory and I shall have to go home alone.
Pyrrhus
If without bloodshed I could have driven from Sparta luxury and extravagance, debts and usury, the riches of the few and the poverty of the many, I should have thought myself the happiest of kings.
Cleomenes III
