The recklessness of their ways destroyed them all.

[Αὐτῶν γὰρ σφετέρῃσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὄλοντο.]

Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author

The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 1, l. 7ff (1.7) (c. 700 BC) [tr. Fagles (1996)]
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Original Greek. Alternate translations:

• "O men unwise, / They perish’d by their own impieties!" [tr. Chapman (1616)]
• "They lost themselves by their own insolence." [tr. Hobbes (1675), l. 9]
• "They perish’d self-destroy’d / By their own fault." [tr. Cowper (1792)]
• "For they were slain in their own foolishness." [tr. Worsley (1861), st. 2]
• "Destin'd as they were / In their mad arrogance to perish; fools!" [tr. Musgrave (1869)]
• "For they in their own wilful folly perished." [tr. Bigge-Wither (1869)]
• "For through the blindness of their own hearts they perished." [tr. Butcher/Lang (1879)]
• "They died of their own souls' folly." [tr. Morris (1887)]
• "For through their own perversity they perished." [tr. Palmer (1891)]
• "For they perished through their own sheer folly." [tr. Butler (1898)]
• "For they perished through their own deeds of sheer recklessness." [tr. Butler (1898), rev. Kim/McCray/Nagy/Power (2018)]
• "For through their own blind folly they perished." [tr. Murray (1919)]
• "For their own recklessness destroyed them all." [tr. Fitzgerald (1961)]
• "They were destroyed by their own wild recklessness, / fools." [tr. Lattimore (1965)]
• "Fools, they foiled themselves." [tr. Mendelbaum (1990)]
• "By their own mad recklessness they were brought to destruction, childish fools." [tr. Merrill (2002)]
• "It was their own transgression that brought them to their doom." [tr. DCH Rieu (2002)]
• "It was through their own blind recklessness that they perished, / the fools." [tr. Green (2018)]
• "They all died from their own stupidity, the fools." [tr. Johnston (2019)]