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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE EPITREPONTES (THE ARBITRATION): CHARISIUS REBUKES HIMSELF, by MENANDER Poet's Biography First Line: Now I, the sinless saint, aiming at honour Last Line: "fallen on him"". But you were high and mighty! --'" | |||
NOW I, the sinless saint, aiming at honour, seeking to know the essence of good and evil, living reproachless and immaculate -- now God has served me well and fittingly, now I have proved my own humanity. 'Fool of all fools, you bluster and pretend: you will not endure your wife's unwitting fault -- now I will show you caught in the same snare! and she will treat you kindly then, while you dishonour her. You will be pilloried as a creature of ill luck, ill ways, ill breeding. Her answer to her father -- very like what you intended! -- "he is my life's partner, and so I must not shirk the evil chance fallen on him". But you were high and mighty! --' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DEATH THE LEVELLER by MENANDER MY OWN, MY NATIVE LAND by MENANDER THE FAMILY DINNER-PARTY by MENANDER THE MUTES IN LIFE'S CHORUS by MENANDER THIS DEFILETH A MAN by MENANDER THIS WORLD IS ALL A FLEETING SHOW by MENANDER |
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