Thursday, June 22, 2023

 

Tragic Curses

Diogenes of Sinope, fragment 4 (from Diogenes Laertius 6.38 etc.; tr. M.J. Cropp):
He (i.e. Diogenes) used to say that all the tragic curses had fallen upon him; he was, at any rate,
Cityless, homeless, bereft of fatherland,
a beggar, a vagrant, getting a living day by day.
εἰώθει δὲ λέγειν ⟨πάσας⟩ τὰς τραγικὰς ἀρὰς αὐτῷ συνηντηκέναι· εἶναι γοῦν
ἄπολις, ἄοικος, πατρίδος ἐστερημένος,
πτωχός, πλανήτης, βίον ἔχων ἐφήμερον.

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# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 6:44 AM


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