Friday, May 01, 2026
Funeral Instructions
Theognis 1191-1194 (tr. Douglas Gerber with his text and apparatus):
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I do not crave to lie on a couch fit for a king when I'm dead; rather, may something good be mine while I'm alive. Thorns are as good a bed for the dead as rugs. It's all the same to him whether the bed is hard or soft.Apparatus from Douglas Young's Teubner edition:
οὐκ ἔραμαι κλισμῷ βασιληΐῳ ἐγκατακεῖσθαι
τεθνεώς, ἀλλά τί μοι ζῶντι γένοιτ᾿ ἀγαθόν.
ἀσπάθαλοι δὲ τάπησιν ὁμοῖον στρῶμα θανόντι·
τῷ ξυνόν, σκληρὸν γίνεται ἢ μαλακόν.
τὸ ξύλον ἢ codd., corr. West
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