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Friday, September 08, 2017

Time

Simonides, elegaic fragment 13 (tr. David A. Campbell):
                                    Time is sharp-toothed,
and he grinds up all things, even the mightiest.

              ὅ τοι Χρόνος ὀξὺς ὀδόντας,
καὶ πάντα ψήχει καὶ τὰ βιαιότατα.


2 Pierson: ψύχει, ψύχη codd. | πάντα καταψήχει Bergk | κὰπ πάντα ψήχει West
D.L. Page, ed., Further Greek Epigrams (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), p. 302: