The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Quotes

“The island of Lesbos has given many gifts to the world—Lesbian wine and Lesbian verse, the seven-stringed lyre, and the poems of Sappho; but of all its products the latest was assuredly the most questionable, for the last great Lesbians were the brothers Barbarossa.”
― Stanley Lane-Poole, The Story of the Barbary Corsairs