Thursday, December 08, 2022
The Brevity of Life
Sophocles, fragment 572 (from Tantalus; tr. Hugh Lloyd-Jones):
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For the time of life is short,A.C. Pearson ad loc.:
and once a mortal is hidden beneath the earth he lies there
for all time.
βιοτῆς μὲν γὰρ χρόνος ἐστὶ βραχύς,
κρυφθεὶς δ' ὑπὸ γῆς κεῖται θνητὸς
τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον.
