“Behold the true father of his country.”
Ecce parens verus patriae.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book IX, line 601 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
WTF Is…? series, Day One: Garry's Incident (October 1, 2013)
“Behold the true father of his country.”
Ecce parens verus patriae.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book IX, line 601 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
F 88
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
“Behold him setting in his western skies,
The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.”
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I line 268.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
“Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never.
Behold, behold this thisness!
This isness.”
Sun Ra (1914–1993) American jazz composer and bandleader
"Tomorrow is Never" (1972), p. 252
Sun Ra : The Immeasurable Equation (2005)
“We behold that which we are, and we are that which we behold.”
John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) Flemish mystic
Quoted in Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (1912) by Evelyn Underhill, p. 506
“Then the Father from his starry citadel beholding these glorious deeds of the Greeks and how the mighty work went forward, is glad.”
Siderea tunc arce pater pulcherrima Graium
coepta tuens tantamque operis consurgere molem
laetatur.
Gaius Valerius Flaccus book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica, Book I, Lines 498–500
Jonathan Swift book Les Voyages de Gulliver
On the Emperor of Lilliput, in Voyage to Lilliput, Ch. 2
Gulliver's Travels (1726)
John Dowland (1563–1626) English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer
Thomas Fuller The History of the Worthies of England ([1662] 1840), vol. 2, p. 426.
Criticism