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I wrote Winter Solstice: A Paean To The Pregnant Darkness, to invite readers into the deep, fertile well that dwells within each of us.
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I'm hoping Derek - while studying this Paean for his own purposes - will translate it into English so I can post that at some point!
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Paean for the eccentric and the misunderstood courtesy of banter from Megg and Kevin at Quiddity.
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Corcyraeans, and other Dorian allies of the Athenians, and when they raised the Paean they inspired as much alarm as the enemy themselves; so that in many parts of the army, when the confusion had once begun, not only did friends terrify friends and citizens their fellow-citizens whom they had encountered, but they attacked one another, and were with difficulty disentangled.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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So the Cretans followed him to Pytho, marching in time as they chanted the Ie Paean after the manner of the Cretan paean-singers and of those in whose hearts the heavenly
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Most disastrous of all were the mistakes caused by the sound of the Paean, which, the same being heard in both armies, was
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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"Paean to inactivity" is a misreading by Andrew Bard Schmookler on Tuesday, Jan 23, 2007 at 11: 14: 09 AM
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They were just resuming their arms, when the Syracusans discovered them and raised the Paean.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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It was now late in the day and the Paean had been already sounded for the onset, when the
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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