Monday, August 12, 2024
They Deserved It
Homer, Odyssey 22.413-416 (tr. Peter Green):
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These dead were destroyed by divine fate and their own
dastardly acts: they honored no mortals on this earth,
either high or low, of those that came among them,
and so through their wanton deeds they met a sorry end.
τούσδε δὲ μοῖρ᾽ ἐδάμασσε θεῶν καὶ σχέτλια ἔργα·
οὔ τινα γὰρ τίεσκον ἐπιχθονίων ἀνθρώπων,
οὐ κακὸν οὐδὲ μὲν ἐσθλόν, ὅτις σφέας εἰσαφίκοιτο· 415
τῷ καὶ ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ἀεικέα πότμον ἐπέσπον.
