Tuesday, November 09, 2021

 

Overpopulation

Ovid, Heroides 16.183-184 (Paris to Helen; tr. Grant Showerman):
Why tell you of our thronging multitudes of men?
Scarce does that land sustain the dwellers in it.

quid tibi de turba narrem numeroque virorum?
    vix populum tellus sustinet illa suum.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 11:59 AM


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