What did Oliver know of lydian modes or Louis Treize decoration or Astec clay dogs?
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
There to me thro' all the groves of olive in the summer glow, There beneath the Roman ruin where the purple flowers grow, Came that "Ave atque Vale" of the Poet's hopeless woe, Tenderest of Roman poets nineteen hundred years ago, "Frater Ave atque Vale"-as we wandered to and fro Gazing at the lydian laughter of the Garda lake below Sweet Catullus's all-but-island, olive silvery Sirmio.
"Hospital Sketches"
Robert Swain Peabody
Before we speak of the lydian kingdom, however, and of its rise to its present position, it will be best to dispose of that outlying state on the southeast, probably an ally or even client of Lydia, which, we are told, was at this time one of the "four powers of Asia."
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth