Sunday, October 11, 2026

 

A General Mutilation

Democritus, fragment 296 (tr. Kathleen Freeman):
Old age is a general mutilation. It possesses everything (i.e. all the limbs and organs), but they each lack something.

γῆρας ὁλόκληρός ἐστι πήρωσις· πάντ' ἔχει καὶ πᾶσιν ἐνδεῖ.
The same, tr. André Laks and Glenn W. Most:
Old age is a mutilation intact in all its parts: it has all things and it lacks all things.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 8:02 AM


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