ὡς δὴ ἐγώ γ᾽ ὄφελον μάκαρός νύ τευ ἔμμεναι υἱὸς
ἀνέρος, ὃν κτεάτεσσιν ἑοῖς ἔπι γῆρας ἔτετμε.
νῦν δ᾽ ὃς ἀποτμότατος γένετο θνητῶν ἀνθρώπων,
220 τοῦ μ᾽ ἔκ φασι γενέσθαι, ἐπεὶ σύ με τοῦτ᾽ ἐρεείνεις.’
Sic iam ego debui beati aicuius esse filius
Viri quem in possessionibus propriis senectus attingit
Nunc autem qui miserimus natus est mortalium hominis
6 Ex illo me fantur esse ortum · postquam tu me de hoc interrogas
If I might choose my father, I would be
His son that groweth old on’s own estate.
But whom they tell me is my father, he
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Of all men is the most unfortunate.
Ah, would that I had been the son of some blest man,
whom old age overtook among his own possessions.
But now of him who was the most ill-fated of mortal men
[220] they say that I am sprung, since thou askest me of this.”
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