16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
next.'
Beef steak and mutton chops came next, hot
and hot, and a dish of true potatoes, fresh
from their native Andes.
'...Olympic games and how they valued the
prizes. There was one of these Seven Sages,
you know, a cove by the name of Chilon,
whose son gained one, and the old gentleman,
the Sage, I mean, died of joy. I remembered
him and his mates – one of my very few
pieces of classical learning – because when I
was a little chap they gave me a book with a
blue cover and a cut of the Seven Sages in it
all looking very much alike, that I had to learn
out of; and it began First Solon, who made
the Athenian laws; Then Chilon, in Sparta, renowned
for his saws. But surely, Sam, dropping
down dead shows a very wrong set of
ideas in a sage?'