ὑπομονή

As The Economist reported of Lady Thatcher:

'In 1989, the year before she was ousted from power by her own party, she mused that "I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."'

"Probably the most difficult sentence in Thucydides' history"

So Rusten's note on II.42.4 from Flashar (die Epitaphios des Perikes 1969: 29) with Dover (Thucydides 9-10) and Dionysius of Halicarnassus (de Thuc. idiom. 16 [1.436 Usener-Radermacher]) in agreement. Rusten discusses this sentence further in HSCP 90 (1986) 49-76.

Trilingualism

Meleager, Anth. 7.419 [= GP IV, 4000 ff., OCT IV, 4044 ff., Penguin no. 289 (Peter Whigham)]

Ἀτρέμας, ὦ ξένε, βαῖνε· παρ’ εὐσεβέσιν γὰρ ὁ πρέσβυς
εὕδει κοιμηθεὶς ὕπνον ὀφειλόμενον,
Εὐκράτεω Μελέαγρος, ὁ τὸν γλυκύδακρυν Ἔρωτα
καὶ Μούσας ἱλαραῖς συστολίσας Χάρισιν·
ὃν θεόπαις ἤνδρωσε Τύρος Γαδάρων θ’ ἱερὰ χθών·
Κῶς δ’ ἐρατὴ Μερόπων πρέσβυν ἐγηροτρόφει.
ἀλλ’ εἰ μὲν Σύρος ἐσσί, „Σαλάμ“, εἰ δ’ οὖν σύ γε Φοῖνιξ,
„Αὐδονίς“, εἰ δ’ Ἕλλην, „Χαῖρε“, τὸ δ’ αὐτὸ φράσον.

Books in the Bath

Henry Chadwick, who died last June [<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2153316/The-Very-Rev-Professor-Henry-Chadwick.html> and <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4166998.ece>], is said to have owned so many books that he had to keep some in the bathtub of his college rooms.

He is reported to have said, "Nothing is sadder than someone who has lost his memory".