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BEP(F.769.006
23 Jan 1769:21 (1739)
A modern politician exemplified, in the punishment of
Sisyphus, as related by Homer, and moralized by Lucretius.
There saw I Sisyphus in endless pain,
Who toils for ever and yet toils in vain:
With many a weary step, and many a groan,
Up an high hill he heaves an heavy stone;
. . . [6 more lines] Homer's Odyssee, Book 11th
The Sisyphus is he, whom noise and strife
Seduce from all the soft retreats of life,
To vex the government, disturb the laws;
Drunk with the fumes of popular applause,
. . . [8 more lines] Lucretius, Book 3d.
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