“Be boastful and be bold, like cock beside his partner.”

— Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Kόμπασον θαρσῶν, ἀλέκτωρ ὥστε θηλείας πέλας.
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 1671 (tr. Anna Swanwick)

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Like one great garden show'd,
And thro' the wreaths of floating dark up-curl'd,
Rare sunrise flow'dAnd Freedom rear'd in that august sunrise
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