Sublime

And God consoles Himself with the thought that all creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

Hope was a dimension of the mortal,

paltry

for to the good poor man old age cannot be a light burden, nor can a bad rich man ever have peace with himself.

Et Arès excitait les uns, et Athènè aux yeux clairs excitait les autres, et partout allaient la crainte et la terreur et la furieuse et insatiable Éris, soeur et compagne d'Arès tueur d'hommes, et qui, d'abord, est faible, et qui, les pieds sur la terre, porte bientôt sa tête dans l'Ouranos. Et elle s'avançait à travers la foule, éveillant la haine

An (above) begot on Ki (below) the air-god Enlil, who tore the two apart and pressed the sky, his father, on high. We know the similar tale from Hesiod (Theogony 153 ff.), of Ouranos, Heaven, separated from the Earth-goddess Gaia by their son, Kronos.

have accomplished it with the aid of the gods. I call to witness the goddess Mother, the black earth, whose landmarks I have in many places torn up, the earth, which was enslaved, and is now free.” In doing this, Solon had accomplished a considerable revolution. He had put aside the ancient religion of property, which, in the name of the immovable

Look, O LORD, and see how worthless I have become. 12 Is it nothing to you,[2] all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the LORD inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.