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İngilizce İngilizce Yunanca

16 In general, you are in a chaotic state and your soul is full of agitation, for you are lost in amazement at everything that goes on. Now you call Dives lucky for his gold and his ivory and all his luxury, and now you pity yourself for imagining that you are alive when you are really nothing at all. Sometimes, too, it comes into your head that you are going to lead an enviable life, since you will revel in all that and share in it equally; you expect to enjoy perpetual Bacchic revels. Perhaps, too, pretty boys waiting upon you and faintly smiling at you paint the picture of your future life in more attractive colours, so that you are forever quoting that line of Homer: Small blame to the fighters of Troy and the brightgreaved men of AchaeaSaid of Helen by the Trojan elders. They continue,; That for a woman like this they long have endured tribulations. Iliad 3, 157 Iliad3, 156 that they endure great toil and suffering for such happiness as this. Then come the toasts, and, calling for a large bowl, he drinks your health, addressing you as “the professor” or whatever it may be. You take the bowl, but because of inexperience you do not know that you should say something in reply, and you get a bad name for boorishness.