Friday, March 15, 2019
One Day
Euripides, fragment 420 (from Ino; tr. Christopher Collard and Martin Cropp):
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Do you see how small the things are that bring down tyrants whose power has long increased, and how one day brings some down from a height, and lifts others up? Wealth has wings! Those who once had it, I see dashed from their hopes, backs laid to the ground.Donald J. Mastronarde on Euripides, Phoenissae 1689:
ὁρᾷς τυράννους διὰ μακρῶν ηὐξημένους,
ὡς σμικρὰ τὰ σφάλλοντα, καὶ μί᾿ ἡμέρα
τὰ μὲν καθεῖλεν ὑψόθεν, τὰ δ᾿ ἦρ᾿ ἄνω.
ὑπόπτερος δ᾿ ὁ πλοῦτος· οἷς γὰρ ἦν ποτε,
ἐξ ἐλπίδων πίπτοντας ὑπτίους ὁρῶ. 5
