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Even to wise mortals Music carries unceasing feelings...
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You'll never fashion anything clever by drinking water!
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Life in the past was happy for mortals as compared to now. Men led a life, gentle in mind with sweet-speaking wisdom, most beautiful of mortals.
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Let the person who wins be him who says what is most desirable for the city.
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Cratinus
Born:
519 BC
Died:
422 BC
(aged 97)
Bio:
Cratinus was an Athenian comic poet of the Old Comedy.
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