Saturday, January 06, 2018
Sleep
Sophocles, Philoctetes 828-830 (tr. Hugh Lloyd-Jones):
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Sleep, ignorant of anguish, ignorant of pains,
come to us with gentle breath, come bringing felicity,
bringing felicity, lord!
Ὕπν᾿ ὀδύνας ἀδαής, Ὕπνε δ᾿ ἀλγέων,
εὐαὴς ἡμῖν ἔλθοις, εὐαίων,
εὐαίων, ὦναξ.
