Saturday, April 26, 2025
The Ways of Zeus
Aeschylus, Suppliants 86-87, 93-95 (tr. Alan H. Sommerstein):
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May Zeus make all be well in very truth!Id. 1057-1058:
The desire of Zeus is not easy to hunt out:
the paths of his mind
stretch tangled and shadowy,
impossible to perceive or see clearly.
εἴθ᾿ εἴη ᾿κ Διὸς εὖ παναληθῶς· 86
Διὸς ἵμερος οὐκ εὐθήρατος ἐτύχθη· 87
δαῦλοι γὰρ πραπίδων 93
δάσκιοί τε τείνου- 94
σιν πόροι κατιδεῖν ἄφραστοι. 95
transp. Westphal
How can I be expected to see into the mind
of Zeus, gazing into its bottomless depths?
τί δὲ μέλλω φρένα Δίαν
καθορᾶν, ὄψιν ἄβυσσον;
