STRANGE THAT THE GODLESS PROSPER
by: Sophocles
 TRANGE is
it that the godless, who have sprung
- From evil-doers, should fare prosperously,
- While good men, born of noble stock, should be
- By adverse fortune vexed. It was ill done
- For the gods thus to order lives of men.
- What ought to be is this, that godly souls
- Should from the gods gain some clear recompense
- And the unjust pay some clear penalty;
- So none would prosper who are base of soul.
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This English translation, by E.H.
Plumptre, of 'Strange that the Godless Prosper' is reprinted
from Greek Poets in English Verse. Ed. William Hyde Appleton.
Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1893. |
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