Lizard

Notable quotes

“Just as a house lizard runs about on the surface of a pitcher lying in open space, so do the human beings move about comfortably all around the Earth.”
— Vaṭeśvara, Gola, ch. 5, sec. 8 (tr. K. S. Shukla, 1985)
“Ανίκα δὴ καὶ σαῦρος ἐφ’ αἱμασιᾶισι καθεύδει.”
— Theocritus, Idyll vii, 22
“Nunc varia in gelida sede lacerta latet:”
— Appendix Vergiliana, "Copa", 28
“On sunny slab of the ruin the furtive and fugitive lizard,”
— Arthur Hugh Clough, Amours de Voyage, Canto III
“Did giant Lizards come and crouch before you on the reedy banks?”
— Oscar Wilde, "The Sphinx" (1894)

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