Friday, May 09, 2025

 

Life

Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 161-163 (tr. Edward P. Coleridge):
No mortal is prosperous or happy to the last, for no one was ever born to a painless life.

θνητῶν δ᾽ ὄλβιος ἐς τέλος οὐδεὶς
οὐδ᾽ εὐδαίμων·
οὔπω γὰρ ἔφυ τις ἄλυπος.



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