Monday, October 30, 2023
Parents
Pindar, Isthmian Odes 1.5 (tr. Anthony Verity):
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For what is dearer to good men than cherished parents?Homer, Odyssey 9.34-36 (tr. Richmond Lattimore):
τί φίλτερον κεδνῶν τοκέων ἀγαθοῖς;
So it is
that nothing is more sweet in the end than country and parents
ever, even when far away one lives in a fertile
place, when it is in alien country, far from his parents.
ὣς οὐδὲν γλύκιον ἧς πατρίδος οὐδὲ τοκήων
γίγνεται, εἴ περ καί τις ἀπόπροθι πίονα οἶκον
γαίῃ ἐν ἀλλοδαπῇ ναίει ἀπάνευθε τοκήων.
