Friday, May 31, 2024
The Lord Giveth
Homer, Odyssey 14.443-445 (tr. Peter Green):
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Eat, my strange guest, and enjoy what's offered here,Id. 4.236-237:
such as it is. A god will give one thing, but let another go,
just as the whim takes him. He can do anything.
ἔσθιε, δαιμόνιε ξείνων, καὶ τέρπεο τοῖσδε,
οἷα πάρεστι· θεὸς δὲ τὸ μὲν δώσει, τὸ δ᾽ ἐάσει,
ὅττι κεν ᾧ θυμῷ ἐθέλῃ· δύναται γὰρ ἅπαντα. 445
Now to one man, now to another
the god, Zeus, gives good or ill, for he can do anything.
ἀτὰρ θεὸς ἄλλοτε ἄλλῳ
Ζεὺς ἀγαθόν τε κακόν τε διδοῖ· δύναται γὰρ ἅπαντα.
