Wednesday, April 13, 2022
A Misanthrope
Menander, Dyskolos 5-10 (tr. Norma Miller):
Related post: Apanthropology.
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This farm here on my right is where Knemon lives: he's a real hermit of a man, who snarls at everyone and hates company — 'company' isn't the word: he's getting on now, and he's never addressed a civil word to anyone in his life! He's never volunteered a polite greeting to anyone...A.W. Gomme and F.H. Sandbach on lines 6-10:
τὸν ἀγρὸν δὲ τὸν ἐπὶ δεξί᾿ οἰκεῖ τουτονὶ
Κνήμων, ἀπάνθρωπός τις ἄνθρωπος σφόδρα
καὶ δύσκολος πρὸς ἅπαντας, οὐ χαίρων τ᾿ ὄχλῳ —
"ὄχλῳ" λέγω; ζῶν οὗτος ἐπιεικῶς χρόνον
πολὺν λελάληκεν ἡδέως ἐν τῷ βίῳ
οὐδενί, προσηγόρευκε πρότερος δ᾿ οὐδένα...
