Thursday, July 7, 2011

Sympathy For The Devil, Part II

Sophocles, Ajax 121-6 (tr. Richard C. Jebb):
Odysseus: I pity him in his misery for all that he is
my foe, because he is bound fast to a dread doom.  I
think of my own lot no less than his.  For I see that
we are but phantoms, all we who live, or fleeting shadows.

                                ...ἐποικτίρω δέ νιν
δύστηνον ἔμπας, καίπερ ὄντα δυσμενῆ,
ὁθούνεκ᾽ ἄτῃ συγκατέζευκται κακῇ,
οὐδὲν τὸ τούτου μᾶλλον ἢ τοὐμὸν σκοπῶν:
ὁρῶ γὰρ ἡμᾶς οὐδὲν ὄντας ἄλλο πλὴν
εἴδωλ᾽ ὅσοιπερ ζῶμεν ἢ κούφην σκιάν.

Related posts: Sympathy for the Devil, The Sweetest Laugh

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