Ha! I thought I was finally going to begin the First Partition, but oh no no no no no, there is yet another piece of introductory material. In this short, third (fourth?) introduction, there is a poem. It is in Latin, so here is my editor’s translation: Weep, Heraclitus; here is food for tears In […]
Tag: Hellebore
A of M, 68-71: Those dizzards and their hellebore
We accuse others of madness, of folly, and are the veriest dizzards ourselves. When all are mad, where all are like opprest, Who can discern one madman from the rest? Can all the hellebore in the Anticyrae cure these men? No, sure, “an acre of hellebore will not do it.” In the olden days, helleborus […]