Sunday, December 19, 2021
Not My Fault
Homer, Iliad 19.86-88 (Agamemnon speaking; tr. A.T. Murray, rev. William F. Wyatt):
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But it is not I who am at fault,
but Zeus and Fate and Erinys, that walks in darkness,
since in the place of assembly they cast on my mind fierce blindness...
ἐγὼ δ᾽ οὐκ αἴτιός εἰμι,
ἀλλὰ Ζεὺς καὶ Μοῖρα καὶ ἠεροφοῖτις Ἐρινύς,
οἵ τέ μοι εἰν ἀγορῇ φρεσὶν ἔμβαλον ἄγριον ἄτην...
