Thursday, March 09, 2017
Humans
Aristophanes, Birds 685-687 (tr. Jeffrey Henderson):
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Now then, ye men by nature just faintly alive, like to the race of leaves,Nan Dunbar's abridged commentary ad loc.:
do-littles, artefacts of clay, tribes shadowy and feeble,
wingless ephemerals, suffering mortals, dreamlike people...
ἄγε δὴ φύσιν ἄνδρες ἀμαυρόβιοι, φύλλων γενεᾷ προσόμοιοι,
ὀλιγοδρανέες, πλάσματα πηλοῦ, σκιοειδέα φῦλ᾿ ἀμενηνά,
ἀπτῆνες ἐφημέριοι, ταλαοὶ βροτοί, ἀνέρες εἰκελόνειροι...
