Blest the man who stays home in good fortune!Sophocles, fragment 934 = Aeschylus, fragment 317 (tr. Hugh Lloyd-Jones):
μακάριος ὅστις εὐτυχῶν οἴκοι μένει.
The man who is truly fortunate should stay at home.
οἴκοι μένειν δεῖ τὸν καλῶς εὐδαίμονα.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Tuesday, January 02, 2024
Beatus Vir
Euripides, fragment 789a Kannicht, line 1 (from Philoctetes; tr. Christopher Collard):