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e(/petai
d' e)n e(ka/stw|
me/tron: noh=sai de\ kairo\j a)/ristoj.
e)gw\ de\ i)/dioj e)n koinw~| stalei\j
mh=ti/n te garu/wn palaigo/nwn
po/lemo/n t' e)n h(rwi/+aij a)retai=sin
ou) yeu/som' a)mfi\ Kori/nqw|, Si/sufon me\n
pukno/taton pala/maij w(j qeo/n,
kai\
ta\n patro\j a)nti/a Mh/deian qeme/nan ga/mon
au)ta~|,
nai\+ sw/teiran )Argoi= kai\
propo/loij.
Each thing has
its limit;
knowing it is the best and most
timely way.
And I, sailing on my own course
for the common good,
and singing of the wisdom and
the battles
of ancient men in their heroic
excellence,
shall not falsify the story of
Corinth; I shall tell of Sisyphus, who, like a god,
was very shrewd in his devising,
and
of
Medea, who resolved on her own marriage against her
father's will,
and thus saved the ship Argo and its
seamen.
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