Alcaeus, fragment 326. 1-4

 

“I don’t fathom the war of the winds

One wave courses from this side

The other from that, and we in the middle

Are tossed about in a black ship”

 

 

 

ἀσυννέτημμι τὼν ἀνέμων στάσιν,

τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἔνθεν κῦμα κυλίνδεται,

τὸ δ’ ἔνθεν, ἄμμες δ’ ὂν τὸ μέσσον

νᾶϊ φορήμμεθα σὺν μελαίναι

 

Sea-Faring is scary.

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