20th-century Classical Scholar Quotes

Maurice Bowra
F. L. Lucas

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

F. L. Lucas
F. L. Lucas
There were two parts of the Greek-speaking world at this time which did not suffer from revolution and did not seek to impose rule over the city states. In Epirus there were three clusters of tribal states, called Molossia, Thesprotia and Chaonia[...]the other part of the Greek-speaking world extended from Pelagonia in the north to Macedonia in the south. It was occupied by several tribal states, which were constantly at war against Illyrians, Paeonians and Thracians.

Crewmates, by now we are hardly strangers to evil and hardship.
We've suffered worse. God will grant us an end to these sufferings also....
Take heart once again and dispel your fears and depression.
Maybe the day'll come when even this will be joy to remember.

Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails.

Maurice Bowra
Maurice Bowra
Philip II, at least from the time of his victory over Phocis, Athens, and their allies in 346, prepared to proclaim himself the champion of a United Greece against the barbarians.

It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men.

Just as all scientific investigation is fruitless which is not pursued in a spirit of truth, so the results of all scientific endeavor are wasted if the continuity of tradition cannot be assured. It is of the very essence of science to be a co-operation and that not only of the men of the same generation, but of the generations successively.