dimmed the daylight
made darkness come upon us
noon and the sunshine
Nothing will surprise me anymore, nor be too wonderful
for belief, now that the lord upon Olympus, father Zeus,
dimmed the daylight and made darkness come upon us in the noon
and the sunshine. So limp terror has descended upon mankind.
After this, men can believe in anything. They can expect
anything. Be not astonished any more, although you see
beasts of the dry land exchange with dolphins, and assume their place
in the watery pastures of the sea, and beasts who loved the hills
find the ocean’s crashing waters sweeter than the bulk of land.
Poetry fragment by Archilochus of Paros, [8th-7th century] in Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati, M.L. West, ed. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1989)
Total eclipse of the sun on Monday.
After this, men can believe in anything.
They can expect anything.
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