Thursday, March 28, 2024
No Good Came of Their Lamenting
Homer, Odyssey 10.566-568 (tr. A.T. Murray):
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So I spoke, and their spirit was broken within them,
and sitting down right where they were, they wept and tore their hair.
But no good came of their lamenting.
ὣς ἐφάμην, τοῖσιν δὲ κατεκλάσθη φίλον ἦτορ,
ἑζόμενοι δὲ κατ᾽ αὖθι γόων τίλλοντό τε χαίτας·
ἀλλ᾽ οὐ γάρ τις πρῆξις ἐγίγνετο μυρομένοισιν.
