Religion
Epigram VIII
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914) · From Homerica (Loeb, 1914)
Religion
Sailors, who rove the seas and whom a hateful fate has made as the shy sea-fowl, living an unenviable life, observe the reverence due to Zeus who rules on high, the god of strangers; for terrible is the vengeance of this god afterwards for whosoever has sinned.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Codex Note
Attributed to Homer in antiquity.
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