Friday, March 22, 2019
Toil
Homer, Iliad 10.70-71 (tr. Peter Green):
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Let's join the hard work ourselves, for this, it would seem,
is the burden of evil that Zeus laid on us at our birth.
ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτοί περ πονεώμεθα· ὧδέ που ἄμμι
Ζεὺς ἐπὶ γιγνομένοισιν ἵει κακότητα βαρεῖαν.
