Saturday, December 16, 2023
In the Land of the Trojans
Homer, Odyssey 3.108-114 (Nestor to Telemachus; tr. A.T. Murray):
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Lo, there all our best were slain.
There lies warlike Aias, there Achilles,
there Patroclus, the peer of the gods in counsel;
and there my own dear son, strong alike and peerless,
Antilochus, pre-eminent in speed of foot and as a warrior.
Aye, and many other ills we suffered besides these; who
of mortal men could tell them all?
ἔνθα δ᾽ ἔπειτα κατέκταθεν ὅσσοι ἄριστοι.
ἔνθα μὲν Αἴας κεῖται ἀρήιος, ἔνθα δ᾽ Ἀχιλλεύς,
ἔνθα δὲ Πάτροκλος, θεόφιν μήστωρ ἀτάλαντος, 110
ἔνθα δ᾽ ἐμὸς φίλος υἱός, ἅμα κρατερὸς καὶ ἀμύμων,
Ἀντίλοχος, πέρι μὲν θείειν ταχὺς ἠδὲ μαχητής·
ἄλλα τε πόλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῖς πάθομεν κακά· τίς κεν ἐκεῖνα
πάντα γε μυθήσαιτο καταθνητῶν ἀνθρώπων;
