Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Alcaeus

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Greek poet Alcaeus.
Last updated on December 7, 2024.
Alcaeus

Alcaeus of Mytilene was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria. He was a contemporary of Sappho, with whom he may have exchanged poems. He was born into the aristocratic governing class of Mytilene, the main city of Lesbos, where he was involved in political disputes and feuds.

'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
Wine is a peep-hole on a man. — © Alcaeus
Wine is a peep-hole on a man.
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.
Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
Not well-built walls, but brave citizens are the bulwark of the city.
Plant no tree sooner than the vine.
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.
Fighting men are the city's fortress.
The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.
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