Theocritus Idyll 11: the Cyclops 50-53
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hawkwing_lbαἰ δέ τοι αὐτὸς ἐγὼ δοκέω λασιώτερος ἦμεν,
ἐντὶ δρυὸς ξύλα μοι καὶ ὑπὸ σποδῷ ἀκάματον πῦρ.
καιόμενος δ᾽ ὑπὸ τεῦς καὶ τὰν ψυχὰν ἀνεχοίμαν
καὶ τὸν ἕν᾽ ὀφθαλμόν, τῶ μοι γλυκερώτερον οὐδέν.
And if for you I myself seem shaggier as well,
here is tree-timber for me, and untiring fire yoked to embers.
And being kindled by you, I'd hold up my spirit,
and my single eye, where nothing is sweeter to me.
ἐντὶ δρυὸς ξύλα μοι καὶ ὑπὸ σποδῷ ἀκάματον πῦρ.
καιόμενος δ᾽ ὑπὸ τεῦς καὶ τὰν ψυχὰν ἀνεχοίμαν
καὶ τὸν ἕν᾽ ὀφθαλμόν, τῶ μοι γλυκερώτερον οὐδέν.
And if for you I myself seem shaggier as well,
here is tree-timber for me, and untiring fire yoked to embers.
And being kindled by you, I'd hold up my spirit,
and my single eye, where nothing is sweeter to me.
