“Hope is the only good god present among men
The rest abandoned us and went to Olympos”
᾿Ελπὶς ἐν ἀνθρώποισι μόνη θεὸς ἐσθλὴ ἔνεστιν
ἄλλοι δ’ Οὔλυμπόν ἐκπρολιπόντες ἔβαν

Theognis, more a method than a man.
ΕΥΔΟΞΑ ΑΓΝΩΣΤΑ ΚΑΤΑΓΕΛΑΣΤΑ
“Hope is the only good god present among men
The rest abandoned us and went to Olympos”
᾿Ελπὶς ἐν ἀνθρώποισι μόνη θεὸς ἐσθλὴ ἔνεστιν
ἄλλοι δ’ Οὔλυμπόν ἐκπρολιπόντες ἔβαν
Theognis, more a method than a man.
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