The Slip

Here are the last steps of Lycambes, close to following the death of his daughters with his own, and reminiscing. Central to this reminiscence are the early expeditions to colonise Thasos he undertook with Telesicles, Archilochus's father. .... Notions of the slip encompass all manner of acts of evasion, disguise, and the tying of a noose.