Wednesday, September 29, 2021

 

I Was Just Following Orders

Sophocles, Philoctetes 6 (Odysseus speaking; tr. Hugh-Lloyd-Jones):
...on the orders of those in command...

...ταχθεὶς τόδ᾽ ἔρδειν τῶν ἀνασσόντων ὕπο...
Lloyd-Jones omitted τόδ᾽ ἔρδειν in his translation, as he was perfectly entitled to do, but because I value a literal translation above all:
...ordered to do this by those in command...
Or, in Jebb's translation:
...having charge from my chiefs so to do...
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875), Philoctète dans l'île de Lemnos (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes):



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