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The latest world news in Greek from Akropolis World News: New manager for the Opera of Paris, Berlusconi challenges Prodi, 100 condemned in India.

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Michael Gilleland at Laudator Temporis Acti posts several translations of Homer’s meditation on the vicissitudes of life in Odyssey 18.130-137. Among other insights, we can see how true Richard Bentley’s comment on Pope’s Iliad is: “it is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer.”
Homer, Odyssey 18.130-137 (tr. Richmond Lattimore):
Of all [...]

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Stultum facit Fortuna quem vult perdere. (Publilius Syrus, Sententia 611)
pron = STOOL-toom FAH-kit fohr-TOO-nah kwem woolt PEHR-deh-reh.
Fortune makes him foolish whom she wishes to destroy.
Comment: I have addressed the double-edged meaning of “The Fool” here before…[more]
(via Bob Patrick’s Latin Proverb of the Day)

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