Euripides Suppliant Women 1080-1

Posted on July 13, 2012 by sententiaeantiquae

“Why isn’t it mortals’ fate to be young twice and then old again?”

τί δὴ βροτοῖσιν οὐκ ἔστιν τόδε,

νέους δὶς εἶναι καὶ γέροντας αὖ πάλιν;

Herakles got to defeat old age….

Doesn’t look like much of a fight

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Original translations of famous words from Ancient Greece and Rome

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