Daily quote by Homer

• Οὐδὲν ἀκιδνότερον γαῖα τρέφει ἀνθρώποιο
  πάντων, ὅσσα τε γαῖαν ἔπι πνείει τε καὶ ἕρπει.
  • Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth,
    our mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man.
  • XVIII. 130–131 (tr. Robert Fagles). Cf. Iliad, XVII. 446–447.
  • Samuel Butler's translation:

    Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth.

  • Robert Fitzgerald's translation:

    Of mortal creatures, all that breathe and move,
    earth bears none frailer than mankind.