Tuesday, April 09, 2024
Childish Things
Pompeius Macer, fragment 1, lines 4-6 (perhaps from his Medea), in Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, ed. Bruno Snell, rev. Richard Kannicht, vol. I, p. 313 (tr. Marinos Yeroulanos):
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Play now, young spirits,
for now is your life's springtide;
worries grow as you grow.
παίζετ’ ὦ νέαι φρένες·
ὡς ἔστιν ὑμῖν τοῦτ’ ἔαρ παντὸς βίου,
ἥβῃ δὲ λῦπαι φροντίδες θ’ ἡβῶσ’ ὁμοῦ.
