Saturday, December 22, 2018
Pro Patria Mori
Homer, Iliad 15.494-498 (tr. Peter Green):
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...and if any man,Richard Janko ad loc.:
whether shot or speared, meets his death and destiny, 495
let him die! No dishonor if it's in defense of one's country
that he dies: his wife will be safe, and his children after him,
and his house and land intact...
...ὃς δέ κεν ὑμέων
βλήμενος ἠὲ τυπεὶς θάνατον καὶ πότμον ἐπίσπῃ 495
τεθνάτω· οὔ οἱ ἀεικὲς ἀμυνομένῳ περὶ πάτρης
τεθνάμεν· ἀλλ᾽ ἄλοχός τε σόη καὶ παῖδες ὀπίσσω,
καὶ οἶκος καὶ κλῆρος ἀκήρατος...
