Fuck Your Chicken Strips

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Do you ever think about (one of) the last statements of the Oracle at Delphi and just get really, really sad? I do. (via heraslions)

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I’m genuinely impressed at how bad people all over the net are at citing this  and other translations of its quotes. You would not believe how many hoops I had to jump through to find out where it came from, and then how many more to get the Greek. (And then when you know where it comes from, it’s buried on a stupid non-main page of wikipedia, of course).

εἴπατε τῷ βασιλεῖ, χαμαὶ πέσε δαίδαλος αὐλά οὐκέτι Φοῖβος ἐχει καλύβην, οὐ μάντιδα δάφνην οὐ παγὰν λαλέουσαν ἀπέσβετο καὶ λάλον ὕδωρ. (Philostorgos, Ecclesiastical History 77 [Bidez-Winkelmann]; Kedrenos 1 523 [Bonn]; Pseudo-Symeon Paris. gr. 1712 ff.91v-92:)

To make the translation more literal:

Tell the king: the well-made hall has fallen to the ground; No longer has Phoibos his shelter, nor his prophetic laurel, nor the chattering spring; and even the babbling water has ceased