Tuesday, October 18, 2016
No Atheists in Foxholes
Aeschylus, Persians 497-499 (tr. Alan H. Sommerstein):
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Those who had never before paid any regard to the gods now addressed them with prayers, making obeisance to earth and heaven.
θεοὺς δέ τις
τὸ πρὶν νομίζων οὐδαμοῦ τότ᾿ ηὔχετο
λιταῖσι, γαῖαν οὐρανόν τε προσκυνῶν.
