Giveaway: it's been awhile

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WINNER HAS BEEN PICKED

I have not done a giveaway in a long time, so why not now?

Up for grabs is a Case Swayback Gent in Mediterranean blue bone engraved with a Greek key pattern. I've only carried it a couple of times so it's in good condition.

Since this knife has a Classical, Greco-Roman theme and I am a Classics teacher myself, enter by posting your favorite ancient Greek or Latin quotation (in English translation). Your post number is your entry number. I will have my six year old randomly pick a number for the winner tomorrow night at eight o'clock and announce the winner shortly after.
 
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nilum illigituimum carbarandum
Does this count?

'Don't let the barstards grind you down'

This is not an entry.....
 
"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head." - Euripides

Makes me laugh every time and then think how true it is.
 
Thanks for the chance!

"He is richest who is content with the least for content is the wealth of nature"

Not Greek but still a favorite of mine "if music is the food of love then play on"
 
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
Epicurus
Thanks!
 
Well... I haven't been on the forums in quite some time but just bought a GEC Soddie, so its time to dive in to the trad section. I'll start of with one of my favs... and very fitting for a knife forum, I might add.

"Desperta Ferro!"

Translation- "Awake Iron!" or "Wake up Iron". It was the battle cry of the Almogavars in the middle ages. They would bang their swords against rocks and chant this battle cry to intimidate their enemies.
 
Not an entry

How sweet and fitting it is to die for your country (Fatherland)
Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori


DULCE ET DECORUM EST

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie;
Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori

Wilfred Owen
8 October 1917 - March, 1918
 
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Carpe Diem

Seize the day!

You can only live one day at a time! So let's buy a few knives while it's still day!

Short time period for this GA too so don't fool around! :cool:
 
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates

Interesting and fun give-away.:thumbup: Thanks for the chance.
Jim
 
"ἀνερρίφθω κύβος", Menander, quoted by Julius Caesar upon leading his army across the River Rubicon to either defeat and death, or the conquest of Rome. "Iacta alea esto", "Let the die be cast (roll the dice)", or as more commonly rendered, "Iacta alea est", "the die has been cast".
(Despite two years of high school and one of college Latin in the mid-XXth century, I had to crib most of that from Wikipedia, which I would have loved to be able to do back then);).
 
si post fata venit gloria non propero

If glory comes after death, I'm not in a hurry.
 
"You talk of food? I have no taste for food--what I really crave is slaughter and blood and the choking groans of men!"

-- Achilles, from The Iliad
 
tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito

Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them

Appreciate the opportunity.
 
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- Aesop

Thanks for the chance!
 
I have enough knives, so this is not an entry. But thank you for the giveway. Btw, the Powernoodle Progeny (ages 11 and 15) attend a Latin school, so we appreciate the content.

Feles mala! Cur cista non uteris? Stramentum novum in ea pousi. (Bad kitty! Why don't you use the cat box? I put new litter in it.)
 
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. - Thales

This is an entry. Thanks for the opportunity!
 
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