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Demodocus of Leros Quotes

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Demodocus of Leros (Ancient Greek: Δημόδoκος, Demodokos; fl. 6th century BC) was an ancient Greek poet from the small island of Leros in the Aegean Sea. He composed in elegiacs and iambs and appears to have specialized in gnomic poetry like his likely contemporary Phocylides.

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An evil viper once bit a Cappadocian, but it died itself, having tasted the venomous blood.

The people of Miletus are not fools, but they do just the kind of things that fools do.

The Chians are bad, not one bad and another not, but all bad — except Procles, and Procles is a Chian.

A viper once bit a Cappadocian, but it died itself.

The Miletians are not fools, but they do just the kind of things that fools do.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Demodocus of Leros (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.