Thursday, October 20, 2022
Stronger
Phocylides, fragment 4 Gentili and Prato, 8 West (tr. Richmond Lattimore):
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Phocylides said this also: a city that's small and is foundedThe same, tr J.M. Edmonds:
on a cliff's edge, well governed, is stronger than Nineveh crazy.
καὶ τόδε Φωκυλίδεω· πόλις ἐν σκοπέλῳ κατὰ κόσμον
οἰκέουσα σμικρὴ κρέσσων Νίνου ἀφραινούσης.
Thus also spake Phocylides—A little state living orderly in a high place is stronger than a block-headed Ninevah.
