Tuesday, December 13, 2022
The Maximum Possible Pleasure
Sophocles, fragment 593 (from Tereus, tr. Alan H. Sommerstein and David Fitzpatrick):
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Let any human being live so as to provide for himself, day by day, the maximum possible pleasure; he is always walking blind into tomorrow.
ζώοι τις ἀνθρώπων τὸ κατ' ἆµαρ ὅπως
ἥδιστα πορσύνων· τὸ δ' ἐς αὔριον αἰεὶ
τυφλὸς ἕρπει.
1 ζώοι codd.: ζῴη Wagner
ἆµαρ Gleditsch: ἦµαρ codd.
3 τυφλὸς Friedländer: τυφλὸν codd.
