“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….
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“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….