Sunday, December 6, 2009

Beggar

"Get off the porch, you old goat, before I haul you off by the leg! Can't you see them give me the wink, al of them here, to drag you out - and so I would but I've got some pangs of conscience. Up with you, man, or before you know it, we'll be trading blows!"

- Arnaeus, The Odyssey, Book 18, page 375

Just goes to show that not everyone can treat royalty with reverence all the time, regardless of the fact that he didn't know who he was.

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