Tag: Shame

Peisander, fr. 8 (Stobaeus 3.12.6)

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“It is not shameful to proclaim even a lie publicly to save a life.”

 

οὐ νέμεσις καὶ ψεῦδος ὑπὲρ ψυχῆς ἀγορεύειν.

 

 

Peisander, you ask? Not the Spartan general or the Severan era poet.

(An epic poet, perhaps?)

 

Pindar, Olympian 10. 7-8

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“What was to be the future attacked from afar and shamed my deep need.”

 

ἕκαθεν γὰρ ἐπελθὼν ὁ μέλλων χρόνος

ἐμὸν καταίσχυνε βαθὺ χρέος.

 

 

(“The time about to be” (ὁ μέλλων χρόνος) in past tense? Thank you, Pindar)