Friday, September 16, 2022
Delusion
Aeschylus, Agamemnon 222-223 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth):
On the sentence see Andrej Petrovic and Ivana Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, Vol. I: Early Greek Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 136-138.
D.R. Shackleton Bailey dedicated two of his books to cats. The Petrovics' book is dedicated to their dog (p. ix):
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For mankind is emboldened by wretched delusion, counsellor of ill, primal source of woe.παρακοπά (παρακοπή, "delusion") is the subject, from παρακόπτω, "strike awry." Both of the compound adjectives αἰσχρόμητις ("counselling shameful acts") and πρωτοπήμων ("bringing the start of sufferings") are hapax legomena. More literally, "For wretched delusion, counselling shameful acts, bringing the start of sufferings, emboldens mortals."
βροτοὺς θρασύνει γὰρ αἰσχρόμητις
τάλαινα παρακοπὰ πρωτοπήμων.
On the sentence see Andrej Petrovic and Ivana Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, Vol. I: Early Greek Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 136-138.
D.R. Shackleton Bailey dedicated two of his books to cats. The Petrovics' book is dedicated to their dog (p. ix):
Woodrow Wilson is attributed with the following saying: 'If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.' Over the past eight years our wonderful dog Mr Miyagi has been inspiring us in many ways to think about inner purity. Even though he has not penned a single word of this book, his help was nevertheless endless. Hence, in gratitude, we dedicate this book to Mr Miyagi, a true creature of ϕιλοϕροσύνη. Κύον πιστότατε, ϕρὴν καθαρωτάτη, σοὶ τόδε βιβλίον τίθεμεν.
