"Eumolpus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... priests and seers of Attica have consulted. Xenagoras speaks for them all save Hermippus of the house of Eumolpus, who ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... drove away and dispersed with a flight of arrows. At last, with much ado, he sent forth two or three of his reveling companions to parley, to whom Sylla, perceiving that they made no serious overtures towards an accommodation, but went on haranguing in praise of Theseus, Eumolpus, and the Median trophies, replied, "My good friends, you may put up your speeches and be gone. I was sent by the Romans to Athens, not to take lessons, but to ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough |
