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See the line 8—9.

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The poison of water hemlock (Cicuta Verosa) was the favorite type of the human-killing poisons before the era of modern cyanide (potassium cyanide) was started. As you all well know, Socratus was cruelly served with it in his prison…

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This word «haddle» simply came out as a product of mixing apostrophic spelling between the words: «had-it-all» = «haddle». Not that I mentioned a figure of ghost could ever be as like that vulgarly person from commonhood, who after the certain «cup of safety & relaxation», in the certain moment and in the certain manner, would have cry: – «Oh! It’s just a haddle-waddle!»; – whether, me-think, this new-made word quite ironically points the character of action and the used jester closely to alive context of here-described situation within the poem.

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Red Horse – apocalyptic image from Matth. 6: 4;

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The proverb «poein» [to poeticize] in old Greek means «to create».

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In this verse, I’d like to remind you that of why Achiles, a bloodiest hero, is the only personage, amongst all of his friends the Athenians, who was honored to be placed on the Eagean Islands, after his death: if you remember, he’s a one, never looking for the War and the fighting, right from the start; a peacefulest athletic character a nymphan, unlikely to all others, he had no purport and no desire to war at all, surely nor like Menelai the revenger, neither like Odysseus the profit searcher; Achiles the Marmedonian King kept the policy of neutralism on his Islands, and this kind of blissfulness I’ve mentioned to be a part of me-versed vision of a noble Aegenean of his past and his future, both.

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"…And he felt in love with the mind of Patrocles»; – Pindar is the first, who emphasized this sort of ideal truth, by looking into the aspects of healthy men’s friendship with the clean, unpervert eye, yet before Aristotle explained it so in his treatises.

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The «orphies» meant to be «the orpheisms» in shorten friendly use of this word, and all of you let never stay doubting then, that, originally, it relates to Orpheus the Archi-poetic Singer and to the thoughts around him and his themes, all Haides-raising.