Sunday, January 14, 2018
All Alone
Sophocles, Philoctetes 169-179 (tr. Hugh Lloyd-Jones):
Seth Schein ad loc.:
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I pity him, in thatR.C. Jebb ad loc.:
with none among mortals to care for him 170
and with no companion he can look on,
miserable, always alone,
he suffers from a cruel sickness
and is bewildered by each
need as it arises. How, how 175
does the unhappy man hold out?
O contrivances of the gods!
O unhappy race of mortals
to whom life is unkind!
οἰκτίρω νιν ἔγωγ᾿, ὅπως,
μή του κηδομένου βροτῶν 170
μηδὲ σύντροφον ὄμμ᾿ ἔχων,
δύστανος, μόνος αἰεί,
νοσεῖ μὲν νόσον ἀγρίαν,
ἀλύει δ᾿ ἐπὶ παντί τῳ
χρείας ἱσταμένῳ. πῶς ποτε πῶς 175
δύσμορος ἀντέχει;
ὦ παλάμαι θεῶν,
ὦ δύστανα γένη βροτῶν,
οἷς μὴ μέτριος αἰών.
177 θεῶν Lachmann: θνητῶν codd.
Seth Schein ad loc.:
