Monday, May 13, 2024
Lies
Homer, Odyssey 14.156-157 (Odysseus, in disguise, speaking; tr. A.T. Murray):
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For hateful in my eyes as the gates of HadesSophocles, Philoctetes 108-109 (tr. Hugh Lloyd-Jones):
is that man, who, yielding to stress of poverty, tells a deceitful tale.
ἐχθρὸς γάρ μοι κεῖνος ὁμῶς Ἀΐδαο πύλῃσι
γίγνεται, ὃς πενίῃ εἴκων ἀπατήλια βάζει.
NEOPTOLEMUS
Do you not think it disgraceful to tell lies?
ODYSSEUS
Not if the lie brings us salvation!
ΝΕΟΠΤΟΛΕΜΟΣ
οὐκ αἰσχρὸν ἡγῇ δῆτα τὸ ψευδῆ λέγειν;
ΟΔΥΣΣΕΥΣ
οὔκ, εἰ τὸ σωθῆναί γε τὸ ψεῦδος φέρει.
