these wings all out for each cohort—
musical wings and wings of seers, wings for the sea. You must be clear— you need to look at all such things when you give every man his wings.
By the kestrels, I can’t stop grabbing you— when I see how miserably slow you are.
Oh, I wish I could an eagle be soaring high above the barren sea, the grey-blue ocean swell so free.
It looks like our messenger told us the truth— here comes someone singing that eagle-song.
Damn it—there’s nothing in the world as sweet as flying . . .
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You’ve come to get some wings from us, I guess.
Yes, I’m in love with all your birdy ways— I want to live with you and fly. Besides, I think your laws are really keen.
What laws? The birds have many laws.
All of them—but I really like that one which says it’s all right for a younger bird to beat up his old man and strangle him.
Yes, by god, we think it very manly when a bird, while still a chick, beats up his dad.
Frederick William Hall (1865–1948) was a classical scholar and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. Together with William Martin Geldart, he produced the Oxford Classical Text of several authors. Hall was a careful editor known for his thorough collation of manuscripts and his conservative approach to textual criticism.
The Hall–Geldart editions in the Oxford Classical Texts series provide reliable critical texts with selective apparatus criticus. The OCT series, established in 1894 as the Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, aims to present the best available Greek and Latin texts in a format suitable for both scholarly use and teaching. Each volume provides a clean text with the most significant manuscript variants recorded at the foot of each page.
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