Friday, July 26, 2024

 

Power

Crates of Thebes, fragment 18 in Hermann Diels, ed., Poetarum Philosophorum Fragmenta (Berlin: Weidmann, 1901), p. 223 (my translation):
You don't know how much power a leather pouch has,
and a day's ration of lupin seeds, and to care for nothing.

οὐκ οἶσθα, πήρα δύναμιν ἡλίκην ἔχει
θέρμων τε χοῖνιξ καὶ τὸ μηδενὸς μέλειν.



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