Wednesday, September 12, 2018

 

Our Policies

Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 473-475 (tr. Jeffrey Henderson):
Well, there is an ancestral saying,
that however brainless or foolish our policies,
all our affairs will turn out for the best.

λόγος γέ τοί τις ἔστι τῶν γεραιτέρων,
ὅσ᾿ ἂν ἀνόητ᾿ ἢ μῶρα βουλευσώμεθα,
ἅπαντ᾿ ἐπὶ τὸ βέλτιον ἡμῖν ξυμφέρειν.
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