Monday, October 03, 2022
The Short and the Long of It
Richard Kannicht and Bruno Snell, edd., Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, Vol. 2: Fragmenta Adespota, rev. ed. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007), pp. 88-89, fragment 279h:
My translation, followed by a transcription of the Greek:
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Life is short,On δαίμονος αἶσαν cf. Homer, Odyssey 11.61 (δαίμονος αἶσα κακή) and Carmina Epigraphica Graeca 84, line 2 (δαίμονος αἶσα), with Christopher G. Brown's note in "The Stele of Mnesagora and Nikochares (CEG 84)," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 152 (2005) 1-5 (at 1, n. 3).
long is the time which we mortals finish under ground.
It is the portion of all to suffer destiny's
doom, whenever it catches up with us.
βραχὺς ὁ βίος, μακρὸν δέ
τὸν κατὰ γᾶς αἰῶνα τελευτῶμεν βροτοί·
πᾶσι δὲ μοῖρα φέρεσθαι δαίμονος
αἶσαν, ἅτις ἂν τύχῃ.
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