Can you solve these Ancient Riddles

Here are ten riddles from the Ancient World. Can you solve them?

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On Apr 12, 2018

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I am the black child of a white father; a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in the pupils that meet me, and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air.

2 / 10

I do not serve the wine to that sweet girl; another (no match for me) does that, while I serve fresh cold water to her parents. Still she often takes me to the well and then supports me groaning; while I kiss her neck with arms around her, and she sweetly moans.

3 / 10

I saw a restless shepherd travelling back and forth on his paths. He garbs himself in that which goes in the same an in an opposite direction. He goes hither and thither among creatures.

4 / 10

What we caught we threw away; what we didn’t catch we kept.

5 / 10

It is not mortal nor yet immortal; rather, it has a nature so mixed that its life is neither in man’s estate nor in a god’s, but its substance ever grows fresh and then dies again; it may not be seen by the eye, yet it is known of all.

6 / 10

If you had taken me in my youth, happily you would have drunk the blood shed from me; but now that time has finished making me old, eat me, wrinkled as I am, with no moisture in me, crushing my bones together with my flesh.

7 / 10

What thing is that which is not among all things that Earth, the nurse, brings forth, not the sea, nor has any growth in its limbs that of things mortal, yet in the time of its earliest begotten generation is largest, but at its midmost height is small, and at old age itself is again largest in shape and size?

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If you look at me I look at your too. You look with eyes but I not with eyes, for I have no eyes. And if you like, I speak without voice, for you have a voice, but I only have lips that open in vain.

9 / 10

What is that goes on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening?

10 / 10

There is something which when living moves not, yet when its head is cut off it moves.

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