“Unus dies par omni est.”

“Homer I deem worthy—in a trial by combat—of good cudgeling, and Archilochos the same.”

“Any day stands equal to the rest.”

“One’s bearing shapes one’s fate.”

“After death comes nothing hoped for nor imagined.”

“The revenant keeps watch over the dead and living.”

“Nightwalker, magus, and their entourage, bacchants and mystics of the wine press, with stained faces and damp wits...”

“Initiation, here, into the ancient mysteries so honored among men mocks holiness.”

“They raise their voices at stone idols as a man might argue with his doorpost, they have understood so little of the gods.”

“Dionysus is their name for death. And if they did not claim the statue of the drunk they worshipped was a god, or call their incoherent song about his cock their hymn, everyone would know what filth their shamelessness has made of them and of the name of god.”