Thursday, July 05, 2018
By the Sea
Homer, Odyssey 5.156-158 (tr. A.T. Murray, rev. George E. Dimock):
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But by day he would sit on the rocks and the sands,W.B. Stanford, commentary ad loc. (p. 298):
racking his heart with tears and groans and griefs,
and he would look out over the unresting sea, shedding tears.
ἤματα δ᾿ ἂμ πέτρῃσι καὶ ἠιόνεσσι καθίζων
δάκρυσι καὶ στοναχῇσι καὶ ἄλγεσι θυμὸν ἐρέχθων
πόντον ἐπ᾿ ἀτρύγετον δερκέσκετο δάκρυα λείβων.
O. haunted the lonely sea-shore not for any Byronic sentiments but, like any ship-wrecked mariner, in the hopes of sighting a ship.
