Wednesday, January 11, 2023

 

Reactions to Trouble

Antiphanes, fragment 103 Kassel-Austin, 104 Kock (from Charioteer; tr. S. Douglas Olson):
One man differs from another in this regard: when one has
trouble, he lets his grief infuriate him,
whereas the other accepts the situation rationally and bears it well.

ἀνδρὸς διαφέρει τοῦτ' ἀνήρ· ὁ μὲν κακῶς
πράττων τὸ λυποῦν ἤγαγ' εἰς παράστασιν,
ὁ δ' ἐμφρόνως δεξάμενος ἤνεγκεν καλῶς.
The same, tr. J.M. Edmonds:
Failure makes some men desperate—you can't tell,
Some take it sensibly and bear it well.
R. Kassel and C. Austin, edd., Poetae Comici Graeci, Vol. II: Agathenor - Aristonymus (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1991), p. 365:

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 5:18 AM


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