Monday, December 02, 2013
Gold and Figs
Ananius, fragment 3, tr. M.L. West, Greek Lyric Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 115:
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If someone locked a lot of gold up in a houseThe Greek, from Iambi et Elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum Cantati, ed. M.L. West, Vol. II (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), p. 35:
with two or three people, and a small amount of figs,
he'd soon find out how much more figs are worth than gold.
εἴ τις καθείρξαι χρυσὸν ἐν δόμοις πολὺν
καὶ σῦκα βαιὰ καὶ δύ᾽ ἢ τρεῖς ἀνθρώπους,
γνοίη χ᾽ ὅσωι τὰ σῦκα τοῦ χρυσοῦ κρέσσω.
