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songbird_becca ([personal profile] songbird_becca) wrote in [personal profile] sorcyress 2024-03-25 10:53 pm (UTC)

Lol I texted sorcyress the same thing re: Cate. Chamaenerion would also like you to know that my translation/version of the seikilos epitaph’s lyrics is superior.

While you live, shine
Have no grief beyond measure
For life is only for a moment
And time takes his toll, oh-oh-oh

The “time takes *his* toll” is because the original word is “chronos”, a male-coded time god, and I think it’s cool to preserve that personification in translation

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