Jun 6, 2015
What do you think about Latin poetry? Do you also study ancient Greek?
I am more of a prose sort of person, but I do like Latin poetry! Because of thoodleoo/Sarah, I like Vergil much more.
Do I also study ancient Greek? Naturally!
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What do you think about Latin poetry? Do you also study ancient Greek?
I am more of a prose sort of person, but I do like Latin poetry! Because of thoodleoo/Sarah, I like Vergil much more.
Do I also study ancient Greek? Naturally!
ἀμήχανος in Simonides
In Simonides' song to Scopas, quoted in Plato's Protagoras, Simonides says:
ἄνδρα δ᾽ οὐκ ἔστι μὴ οὐ κακὸν ἔμμεναι | ὅν [ἂν] ἀμήχανος συμφορὰ καθέλῃ (Prot. 344c4-5)
"But it is not possible for the man not to be bad | whom irresistible events throw down."
Does ἀμήχανος have a wrestling context here? More generally, is the sense always "not possible to deal with some offensive/powerful force"?