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padisha emperor said:I know that Herodote wrote about the Thermopyles, but I don't think it's him, uh ?
The answer is Simonides.USViking said:Question:
Poet who composed the epitaph at the monument for the Greek dead at Thermopolae (very loosely translated):
Go tell Sparta, traveller passing by,
That here, obedient to her laws, we lie.
Thomas Riley MarshallUSViking said:The answer is Simonides.
Let's try another Question:
US Vice President who greatest claim to fame was coining the phrase:
"What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar"
(the answer is googlable).
Kathianne said:Ok, but you all seem to like to go obscure. One of the writer's of the Federalist Papers, especially regarding the legislative branch. He was a delegate to the Convention, but gave a heck of a speech, that would form the basis for his contributions...
USViking said:Eenie, meenie, minie, moe-
Madison?
USViking said:Jay was the least famous.
Just for you all smarty pants, James Wilson!USViking said:Take a question, bro'.
Kathianne said:Just for you all smarty pants, James Wilson!
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/federalist/antixx.htm
gop_jeff said:According to that link, Wilson was an author of the Anti-Federalist Papers, not the Federalist papers, as you asked in your question.
USViking said:We'll let Gop Jeff break in with a question later.
Question:
Composer/translater of the Vulgate (Latin) Bible, which was the sole Bible for Western Christendom for 12 centuries, and the sole liturgical Roman Catholic Bible for 16 centuries.
Augustine?USViking said:He would have had to be in full command of both Hebrew (OT) and Greek (NT); the translation was into Latin.
