Tuesday, November 01, 2016
The Most Miserable of All Creatures
Homer, Iliad 17.446–447 (tr. A.T. Murray, rev. William F. Wyatt):
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For truly there is nothing, I think, more miserable than man
among all things that breathe and move on earth.
οὐ μὲν γάρ τί πού ἐστιν ὀιζυρώτερον ἀνδρὸς
πάντων ὅσσα τε γαῖαν ἔπι πνείει τε καὶ ἕρπει.
