83. Rhomb . . . lozenge . . . trapezoid: all four-sided forms, but
differing as to the parallel arrangement of their sides and the
obliquity of their angles.
140. Terpander: musician of Lesbos (about 650 B. C.), who added
three strings to the four-stringed Greek lyre.
141. Phidias: the Athenian sculptor (about 430 B. C.) --and his
friend: Pericles, ruler of Athens (444-429 B.C.). Plutarch speaks
of their friendship in his Life of Pericles.
304. Sappho: poet of Lesbos, supreme among lyricists (about 600
B. C.). Only fragments of her verse remain.
305. AEschylus: oldest of the three great Athenian dramatists
(525-472 B. C.).
340. Paulus; we have have heard his fame: Paul's mission to the
Gentiles carried him to many of the islands in the AEgean Sea as
well as to Athens and Corinth (Acts 13-21).
RUDEL TO THE LADY OF TRIPOLI
1842
I
I know a Mount, the gracious Sun perceives
First, when he visits, last, too, when he leaves
The world; and, vainly favored, it repays
The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze
By no change of its large calm front of snow.
And underneath the Mount, a Flower I know,
He cannot have perceived, that changes ever
At his approach; and, in the lost endeavor
To live his life, has parted, one by one,
With all a flower's true graces, for the grace 10
Of being but a foolish mimic sun,
With ray-like florets round a disk-like face.
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