"Patrial" Quotes from Famous Books
... bestem the salt-plain's quivering wavelet And from her ankles bare the dainty garment uplifting, Spake she these words ('tis said) from sorrow's deepest abysses, 130 Whiles from her tear-drencht face outburst cold shivering singulfs. "Thus fro' my patrial shore, O traitor, hurried to exile, Me on a lonely strand hast left, perfidious Theseus? Thus wise farest, despite the godhead of Deities spurned, (Reckless, alas!) to thy home convoying perjury-curses? ... — The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus |