Laudator Temporis Acti: Casualties

Casualties

Homer, Iliad 16.316 (tr. A.T. Murray, rev. William F. Wyatt):

And darkness enfolded his eyes.

τὸν δὲ σκότος ὄσσε κάλυψε.

Id. 16.327:

These two ... went to Erebus.

βήτην εἰς Ἔρεβος.

Id. 16.333-334:

And down over his eyes
came dark death and resistless fate.

τὸν δὲ κατ᾿ ὄσσε
ἔλλαβε πορφύρεος θάνατος καὶ μοῖρα κραταιή.

Id. 16.344:

And down over his eyes a mist was shed.

κατὰ δ᾿ ὀφθαλμῶν κέχυτ᾿ ἀχλύς.

Id. 16.350:

And a black cloud of death enfolded him.

θανάτου δὲ μέλαν νέφος ἀμφεκάλυψεν.

Id. 16.414:

And death, that slays the spirit, was shed about him.

ἀμφὶ δέ μιν θάνατος χύτο θυμοραϊστής.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 5:02 AM

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