“It’s hard for a man to overcome a god”
ἀργαλέος γάρ τ’ ἐστὶ θεὸς βροτῷ ἀνδρὶ δαμῆναι.
(The English translation certainly doesn’t measure up to the Greek. Maybe if I dropped the indefinite articles….)
Homer, Odyssey 4.397
“It’s hard for a man to overcome a god”
ἀργαλέος γάρ τ’ ἐστὶ θεὸς βροτῷ ἀνδρὶ δαμῆναι.
(The English translation certainly doesn’t measure up to the Greek. Maybe if I dropped the indefinite articles….)