[lbo-talk] Re: sad songs

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 25 22:01:57 PDT 2005


It's from Theogenis vis Sophocles (no, the Greek's not mine, that came with the Google -- but I did know it was Oedipus at Colonos) :

In Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles has the following abbreviation of [some lines by Theognis]:

Ìç ϕõíáé ôïí 'Üðáíôá

íéêá ëüãïí · ôï ä'åðåé ϕáíç,

âçíáé êåéèåí, 'üèåí ðåñ 'Þêåé,

ðïëõ äåýôåñïí, 'ùò ôÜ÷éóôá.

(Never to be born is far best;

yet if a man lives,

the next best thing is for him to return

as quickly as possible

to the place from which he came).

--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


>
>
> frank scott wrote:
> >
> > how about this oldie: (title, and first line)
> >
> > "why was i born?
> >
> > why am i living?"
> >
> > ah rest mah case...
> >
>
> A proverb in ancient Greece (quoted, or more
> accurately paraphrased,
> from memory): Best is not to have been born; having
> been born, best is
> to go hence quickly.
>
> Carrol
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