
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:
@emdiefisher ("Mark Fisher") wrote:
The Iliad's one-line description of the plague is always hauntingly concise, but this time through it reads like a punch in the gut:
αἰεὶ δὲ πυραὶ νεκύων καίοντο θαμειαί.
"Close-packed and constant the funeral pyres burned."