Thursday, August 17, 2023
A Bad Deal
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 781-782 (tr. R.C. Jebb):
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Yet such is the nature of your own offers to me:
noble in appearance, but in substance base.
τοιαῦτα μέντοι καὶ σὺ προσφέρεις ἐμοί,
λόγῳ μὲν ἐσθλά, τοῖσι δ᾽ ἔργοισιν κακά.
