No Fear of Retribution

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No Fear of Retribution

AΦOBON O ΘEOΣ

ANYΠOΠTON O ΘANATOΣ

KAI TAΓAΘON MEN EYKTHTON

TO ΔE ΔEINON EYEKKAPTEPHTON

– TETPAΦAPMAKOΣ

I wanted to produce a translation that maintains Philodemus' rhyme schema, so I came up with this:

"No fear of retribution,

No dread of dissolution;

As The Good is easy to get,

So the bad is patiently met."

The photograph is Ruins of the Temple of Athena, Assos, Turkey by Herbert Weber

Comments 2

January 1, 2023 at 10:31 AM

And, if I may say, I always get a kick out of remembering that ΔEINON is the same word as the first part of dinosaur "terrible lizard." :)
January 1, 2023 at 10:21 AM

Well done! That's a great way to avoid the imperatives that usually get used in translations even though they're not in the text.

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