Thursday, December 04, 2025
Well-Born
Homer, Odyssey 4.62-64 (Menelaus to Telemachus and Pisistratus; tr. A.T. Murray, trv. George E. Dimock):
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For in you two the line of your sires is not lost, but you are of the race of men that are sceptered kings, fostered by Zeus; for no commoner could beget such sons as you.
... οὐ γὰρ σφῷν γε γένος ἀπόλωλε τοκήων,
ἀλλ᾿ ἀνδρῶν γένος ἐστὲ διοτρεφέων βασιλήων
σκηπτούχων, ἐπεὶ οὔ κε κακοὶ τοιούσδε τέκοιεν.
62–64 ath. Zenodotus, Aristophanes Byzantius, Aristarchus
