Monday, August 09, 2021
Delusion
Homer, Iliad 19.90-94 (tr. Richmond Lattimore):
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Yet what could I do? It is the god who accomplishes all things.The Iliad, a Commentary, Vol. V: Books 17-20, by Mark W. Edwards (1991; rpt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 247:
Delusion is the elder daughter of Zeus, the accursed
who deludes all; her feet are delicate and they step not
on the firm earth, but she walks the air above men's heads
and leads them astray. She has entangled others before me.
ἀλλὰ τί κε ῥέξαιμι; θεὸς διὰ πάντα τελευτᾷ,
πρέσβα Διὸς θυγάτηρ Ἄτη, ἣ πάντας ἀᾶται,
οὐλομένη. τῇ μέν θ᾽ ἁπαλοὶ πόδες· οὐ γὰρ ἐπ᾽ οὔδει
πίλναται, ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα ἥ γε κατ᾽ ἀνδρῶν κράατα βαίνει
βλάπτουσ᾽ ἀνθρώπους· κατὰ δ᾽ οὖν ἕτερόν γ᾽ ἐπέδησεν.
