Friday, August 9, 2024

Many Wounds in Achilles' Heart: Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 1.718-721

But Achilles grieved as he gazed

Down at Penthesilea’s beautiful body lying dead in the dust

The pain in his heart was no less

than feeling the recent loss of his beloved Patroclus.

--Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 1.718-721, Translated into Latin by Lorenz Rhodomann

  μέγα δ χνυτο Πηλέος υἱὸς

κούρης εσορόων ρατν σθένος ν κουίσι:

τονεκά ο κραδίην λοα κατέδαπτον ναι

ππόσον μφ τάροιο πάρος Πατρόκλοιο δαμέντος.


 At Pelei filius valde contristabatur,

delectabilem puellae speciem in pulverem contuens;

ideo nociva aegritudo ipsius cor edebat,

non minus quam nuper ob Patroclum amicum interfectum.


 

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