ἅπανθ’ ὁ μακρὸς κἀναρίθμητος χρόνος φύει τ’ ἄδηλα καὶ φανέντα κρύπτεται· κοὐκ ἔστ’ ἄελπτον οὐδέν, ἀλλ’ ἁλίσκεται χὠ δεινὸς ὅρκος χαἰ περισκελεῖς φρένες. –> Long, unmeasurable Time brings to light everything unseen and hides what has been apparent. Nothing is beyond hope; even the fearsome oath and the most stubborn will is overcome. | All things long and countless time brings to birth in darkness and covers after they have been revealed! Nothing is beyond expectation; the dread oath and the unflinching purpose can be overcome.
Sophocles, Ajax, line 646Sophocles | aleator classicushttps://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HwF6Oq4iX4MJ:https://www.loebclassics.com/view/sophocles-ajax/1994/pb_LCL020.91.xml+&cd=29&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=grBy great, uncounted time all things, though dark, are brought
Forth and once shown are hid away again; not one Is not to be
awaited, but the awful oath
Is undone, and the hardened heart; so I, whose might
Was awesome once, am as an iron in the dipping
Given a woman’s mouth beneath this woman here;
Her widowed by my enemies and fatherless my child:
To leave them thus is pitiful to me; but I
Shall go beside the bathing-places in the meadows By the
shore, to wash from me my filth and leave The goddess’
wrath and weight; and going where I should Find out a
place ungone upon, I shall
Hide there this sword of mine, of weapons all most hateful,
Digging up the earth where none shall see it;
https://www.bard.edu/wwwmedia/files/3769903/21/2021%20Sui%20Generis%20Full.pdfEl tiempo largo y sin medida saca a la luz todo lo que era invisible, así como oculta lo que estaba claro. Nada hay que no se pueda esperar, sino que son doblegados, incluso, el terrible juramento y las mentes obstinadas. Yo, que hace un momento resistía tan violentamente, cual el hierro al temple, me he sentido ablandado en mi afilado lenguaje a causa de esta mujer. Siento compasión de dejarla viuda entre mis enemigos, y huérfano a mi hijo.
19 | septiembre | 2016 | Nihil sub sole novum