to find a subject staid and wise Already half turn'd traitor by surprise

The first evidence of the Byzantine lira is in a Persian literary source of the ninth century.

Tony Curtis, a smutmonger for Stop magazine, described by its editors as the most disgusting scandal sheet the human mind can recall, wants to write an exposé of her.

In this connection, I take note of the earlier theories of Curt Sachs, postulating three kinds of origins for melodic traditions: logogenic, from language; pathogenic, from motion; and melogenic, from music (Sachs 1937, pp. 181-203; 1943, pp. 30-43).