Grigor Magistros

Grigor Magistros (990-1058) was an Armenian scholar, linguist, writer, poet, and official. He served as governor-general of the province of Edessa and named a duke by Byzantine Emperor Constantine I. Homeric Greek and contemporary Arabic influences are manifested in his works.

Wisdom & Quotes

• The lark, fearing that Heaven would fall, lay on her back, holding her feet up towards the sky, thinking she might thus prevent the catastrophe. Some laughed at her and said, " With your spindle legs, you want to become a tree. O bird! with a mind capacious as the sea."

The lark replied simply, "I am doing what I can."
- recording a peasant fable

Samuel Ha-Nagid