an eudæmonist

one of the oldest jokes in the book

The 9th of June 2003, a Monday, at 8.00

Generally: nor good red herring.

Might be similar to:
Writ in water
Taxonomy
fragment from the shower
22.01.02 - Tuesday
irreptitious


Καππαδόκην ποτ’ ἔχιδνα κακὴ δάκεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὴ // κάτθανε
γευσαμένη
αἵματος ἰοβόλου.

A nasty asp once bit a Cappadocian girl; one taste of her arrow-slinging blood, though, and the snake died.

– Demodocus (III; 4 B. & D.)
Epigrammata Graeca (ed. Page)

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