Friday, September 05, 2014
Your Brain's a Morass
Lysippus, fragment 7, tr. Lionel Casson (1914-2009) in Travel in the Ancient World (1974; rpt. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), p. 85:
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If you've never seen Athens, your brain's a morass;The Greek:
if you've seen it and weren't entranced, you're an ass;
if you left without regrets, your head's solid brass!
εἰ μὴ τεθέασαι τὰς Ἀθήνας, στέλεχος εἶ·I'm in the first category.
εἰ δὲ τεθέασαι μὴ τεθήρευσαι δ', ὄνος·
εἰ δ' εὐαρεστῶν ἀποτρέχεις, κανθήλιος.
