TheognisФеогнид
1 passageотрывков: 1
Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
3. Могу ли я видеть без огорчения, как люди употребляют свой ум на то, чтобы ссориться друг с другом, чтоб приготовлять друг другу ловушки, обманывать и выдавать. Могу ли я без слез глядеть на то, что основы добра и зла заброшены или, скорее, неизвестны.
3. Can I see without grief how people use their minds to quarrel with one another, to lay traps for one another, to deceive and to betray? Can I look without tears on the fact that the foundations of good and evil are neglected, or rather unknown?
Probably from Elegies · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
Not in Leo Tolstoy as EditorThe thought is Theognis’s, lines 57–60, but Tolstoy’s much longer version probably came through an intermediary not found.
Original · Ancient Greek… τίς κεν ταῦτ' ἀνέχοιτ' ἐσορῶν;
… ἀλλήλους δ' ἀπατῶσιν ἐπ' ἀλλήλοισι γελῶντες, οὔτε κακῶν γνώμας εἰδότες οὔτ' ἀγαθῶν.
Source text: el.wikisource.orgIn English · J. Banks, 1856They deceive also one another, laughing one at the other, conscious of the sentiments neither of bad nor good.
Source text: archive.orgDetails
A likely source, not certain. Elegies, lines 57–60.
The Jubilee name index dates «Феогнист» to the 6th–5th c. BC, which makes him Theognis of Megara. Lines 57–60: "who could bear to see this? They deceive one another, laughing at one another, knowing the marks neither of bad nor of good." Tolstoy's version is much expanded (quarrelling, laying traps, betraying, "without tears"); it probably came through an intermediary, not found.