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Who Said That? (Greek) Flashcards

1
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Cast behind you the bones of your mother.

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Parnassus oracle

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2
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Building is better than killing.

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Cadmus

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See! I have brought you that which you desired.

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Perseus

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What had been fated came to pass.

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Greek saying

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I will get you some of the apples if you will hold up the sky for me.

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Atlas

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6
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Beware of the man who wears but one sandal.

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oracle of Apollo

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7
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If you are a man, lift that stone.

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Aethra

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8
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If my death will help the Greeks, I am ready to die.

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Iphigenia

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9
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I care nothing for gods! But as for men, let me show you how much I like them.

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Cyclops

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10
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Loose me! Loose me! I must go nearer that music!

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Odysseus

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11
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Bring up this child for Sparta.

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order of Sparta

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12
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Come back with this or upon this.

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Spartan mothers

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13
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Sparta’s citizens are her walls.

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Lycurgus

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14
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Who is the happiest man you have ever known?

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Croesus

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15
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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.

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Solon

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16
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Men of Athens! See what my enemies have done to me because I am a friend of the people.

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Pisistratus

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17
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There you will find both earth and water for your master.

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the Spartans

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18
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Rejoice! Rejoice! We are victors!

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Pheidipides

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19
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So much the better, we shall fight in the shade.

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Spartan soldier

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20
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Stranger, tell the Spartans that we lie here in obedience to their commands.

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Spartan memorial

21
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We fight for all.

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Greeks at Salamis

22
Q

I have never seen him but I am tired of hearing him called “the Just”.

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Athenian to Aristides

23
Q

Athens and Sparta are the two legs of Greece.

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Cimon

24
Q

Because Cimon is already with me.

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oracle of Zeus

25
Q

That of which I am proudest is that no Athenian ever wore mourning because of anything done by me.

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Pericles

26
Q

What you praise in my life has been due to fortune. I deserve no credit for it.

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Pericles

27
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When the lion’s skin is too short, you must patch it with that of a fox.

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Lysander

28
Q

What! Would you have me die guilty?

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Socrates

29
Q

You can bury my body; you cannot put me into a grave.

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Socrates

30
Q

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.

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Socrates

31
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Thus died the man who was in death the noblest we have ever known, in life, the wisest and the best.

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Plato

32
Q

Victory!

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Greeks at Cunaxa

33
Q

I see the man.

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Cyrus

34
Q

And where can the good and the noble be found?

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Socrates

35
Q

Leuctra and Mantinea are daughters who will keep my name alive.

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Epaminondas

36
Q

I have lived long enough.

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Epaminondas

37
Q

I appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober.

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Macedonian woman

38
Q

My father will leave me nothing to do!

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Alexander

39
Q

To the strongest.

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Alexander

40
Q

Do not be discouraged but conquer your difficulties.

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actor to Demosthenes

41
Q

Let us be equally energetic and unselfish and just, then we shall triumph.

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Demosthenes

42
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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.

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Demosthenes

43
Q

Sell me to someone who wishes a master.

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Diogenes

44
Q

Never a day without a line.

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Apelles

45
Q

I am looking for a man.

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Diogenes

46
Q

If I were not going to conquer the world, I should like to have the power which Diogenes has to conquer himself.

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Alexander

47
Q

Another such victory and I shall have to go home alone.

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Pyrrhus

48
Q

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.

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Cleomenes III

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