Thursday, November 08, 2018

 

Invictus

Euripides, Heracles 1227-1228 (tr. E.P. Coleridge):
The gallant soul endures such blows as heaven deals and does not refuse them.

                                      ὅστις εὐγενὴς βροτῶν,
φέρει τά γ' ἐκ θεῶν πτώματ' οὐδ' ἀναίνεται.


τά γ' ἐκ θεῶν Headlam: τὰ τῶν θεῶν γε codd.



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