“Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter were articulated next summer.Plutarch
“Give me more love or more disdain; The torrid or the frozen zone: Bring equal ease unto my pain; The temperate affords me none. Thomas Carew