Pindar's Blues, Man's Life Is a Day

From Pindar's Pythian 8:

Man's life is a day. What is he?

What is he not? A shadow in a dream

Is man: but when God shines a brightness,

Shining light is on earth

And life is sweet as honey.

tr. C.M. Bowra

ἐπάμεροι: τί δέ τις; τί δ᾽ οὔ τις; σκιᾶς ὄναρ

ἄνθρωπος. ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν αἴγλα διόσδοτος ἔλθῃ,

λαμπρὸν φέγγος ἔπεστιν ἀνδρῶν καὶ μείλιχος αἰών

1967-1968

Character is destiny

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