Tuesday, October 10, 2006
The Ship of State
Theognis 855-856 (tr. J.M. Edmonds):
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Often and often through the worthlessness of her leaders this city, like a ship out of her course, hath run too nigh the shore.
πολλάκις ἡ πόλις ἥδε δι᾽ ἡγεμόνων κακότητα
ὥσπερ κεκλιμένη ναῦς παρὰ γῆν ἔδραμεν.
