Sunday, December 10, 2023
Doomed
Homer, Odyssey 2.281-284 (tr. A.T. Murray):
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Now then let be the will and counsel of the wooers
—fools, for they are in no wise either prudent or just,
nor do they know aught of death or black fate,
which verily is near at hand for them, that they shall all perish in a day.
τῶ νῦν μνηστήρων μὲν ἔα βουλήν τε νόον τε
ἀφραδέων, ἐπεὶ οὔ τι νοήμονες οὐδὲ δίκαιοι·
οὐδέ τι ἴσασιν θάνατον καὶ κῆρα μέλαιναν,
ὃς δή σφι σχεδόν ἐστιν, ἐπ᾽ ἤματι πάντας ὀλέσθαι.
