Monday, February 12, 2024
Men
Alcaeus, fragment 112, line 10 (tr. David A. Campbell):
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For warlike men are a city's tower.Aeschylus, Persians 348-349 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth):
ἄνδρες γὰρ πόληος πύργος ἀρεύιοι.
AtossaSophocles, Oedipus the King 56-57 (my translation):
Is then the city of Athens not yet despoiled?
Messenger
No, while her men still live, her ramparts are impregnable.
Ἄτοσσα
ἔτ᾽ ἆρ᾽ Ἀθηνῶν ἔστ᾽ ἀπόρθητος πόλις;
Ἄγγελος
ἀνδρῶν γὰρ ὄντων ἕρκος ἐστὶν ἀσφαλές.
Since a tower or a ship is nothingThucydides 7.77.7 (tr. Jeremy Mynott):
if empty of men living together inside.
ὡς οὐδέν ἐστιν οὔτε πύργος οὔτε ναῦς
ἔρημος ἀνδρῶν μὴ ξυνοικούντων ἔσω.
It is men that make a city, not walls or ships empty of men.
ἄνδρες γὰρ πόλις, καὶ οὐ τείχη οὐδὲ νῆες ἀνδρῶν κεναί.
