Tuesday, February 12, 2019
The Dissembler
Homer, Iliad 9.312-313 (tr. Peter Green):
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For hateful to me as the gates of Hādēs is that manUnfortunately nowadays this strategy is necessary for survival. Die Gedanken sind frei, but their public expression is not.
who hides one thought in his mind, but speaks another.
ἐχθρὸς γάρ μοι κεῖνος ὁμῶς Ἀΐδαο πύλῃσιν
ὅς χ᾽ ἕτερον μὲν κεύθῃ ἐνὶ φρεσίν, ἄλλο δὲ εἴπῃ.
