Wednesday, December 18, 2019

 

Dealing with Misfortune

Archilochus, fragment 11 (tr. Richmond Lattimore):
I will make nothing better by crying, I will make nothing
    worse by giving myself what entertainment I can.

οὔτε τι γὰρ κλαίων ἰήσομαι, οὐτε κάκιον
    θήσω τερπωλὰς καὶ θαλίας ἐφέπων.
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