"it wasn't me!"

argirios zias argirioszias at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 12 20:35:37 CDT 2001


Fun to dance to that one, "it wasn't me!"

But he got caught red handed en el Bano.

Anonymity & the Insanity Defense

Then Agamemnon spoke, rising in his place, and not going into the
    middle of the assembly. "Danaan heroes," said he, "servants of Mars, it
    is well to listen when a man stands up to speak, and it is not seemly to
    interrupt him, or it will go hard even with a practised speaker. Who can
    either hear or speak in an uproar? Even the finest orator will be
    disconcerted by it. I will expound to the son of Peleus, and do you 
other
    Achaeans heed me and mark me well. Often have the Achaeans spoken
    to me of this matter and upbraided me, but it was not I that did it: 
Jove,
    and Fate, and Erinys that walks in darkness struck me mad when we
    were assembled on the day that I took from Achilles the meed that had
    been awarded to him. What could I do? All things are in the hand of
    heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their
    destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers 
over
    the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.

Iliad.19




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