Friday, May 03, 2024
Deposuit Potentes de Sede, et Exaltavit Humiles
Archilochus, fragment 130 West, from Stobaeus 4.41.24 (tr. Anne Pippin Burnett):
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Fulfillment is the gods' affair. Often whenSee Fernando García Romero, "Archilochus fr.130 West," Philologus 139 (1995) 179-182.
a man lies helpless on the dark earth they
set him right again; often too they overturn
the ones who journey at their ease, calling up a swarm
of evils to pursue, and then a man will wander
hungrily, with madness running in his mind.
τοῖς θεοῖς τέλεια πάντα· πολλάκις μὲν ἐκ κακῶν
ἄνδρας ὀρθοῦσιν μελαίνῃ κειμένους ἐπὶ χθονί,
πολλάκις δ᾿ ἀνατρέπουσι καὶ μάλ᾿ εὖ βεβηκότας
ὑπτίους, κείνοις <δ᾿> ἔπειτα πολλὰ γίνεται κακά,
καὶ βίου χρήμῃ πλανᾶται καὶ νόου παρήορος. 5
1 θεοῖς τέλεια πάντα Hommel: θεοῖς τ᾿ εἰθεῖάπαντα cod. S: θεοῖσι ῥεῖα πάντα Wilamowitz
4 κείνοις Blaydes: κίνουσ᾽ S: κλίνουσ᾽ Valckenaer
δ' add. West
