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		<title>Homer -- The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 22, l.  32ff (22.32) (c. 700 BC) [tr. Mandelbaum (1990)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those fools were not aware that now they all were snared, that death cords lashed them fast. [τὸ δὲ νήπιοι οὐκ ἐνόησαν, ὡς δή σφιν καὶ πᾶσιν ὀλέθρου πείρατ᾽ ἐφῆπτο.] (Source (Greek)). Other translations: O fools, to think That all their rest had any cup to drink But what their great Antinous began! [tr. Chapman [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those fools<br />
were not aware that now they all were snared,<br />
that death cords lashed them fast.</p>
<p>[τὸ δὲ νήπιοι οὐκ ἐνόησαν,<br />
ὡς δή σφιν καὶ πᾶσιν ὀλέθρου πείρατ᾽ ἐφῆπτο.]</p>
<br><b>Homer</b> (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author<br><i>The Odyssey</i> [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 22, l.  32ff (22.32) (c. 700 BC) [tr. Mandelbaum (1990)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey_of_Homer/ORyo8qAA-CQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=fools%20were%20not%20aware&pg=PA438&printsec=frontcover" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0135%3Abook%3D22%3Acard%3D1#:~:text=%CF%84%E1%BD%B8%20%CE%B4%E1%BD%B2%20%CE%BD%CE%AE%CF%80%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%B9%20%CE%BF%E1%BD%90%CE%BA%20%E1%BC%90%CE%BD%CF%8C%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B1%CE%BD%2C">Source (Greek)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>O fools, to think<br>
That all their rest had any cup to drink<br>
But what their great Antinous began!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48895/48895-h/48895-h.htm#:~:text=the%20author%E2%80%99s%20will.-,O%20fools%2C%20to%20think,-That%20all%20their">Chapman</a> (1616)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For, proud and foolish, they perceived not<br>
The fatal hour was to them all arriv’d.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/hobbes-the-english-works-vol-x-iliad-and-odyssey#:~:text=Dogs%2C%20dead%20you,all%20is%20nigh.">Hobbes</a> (1675), l. 27ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Blind as they were: for death e'en now invades<br>
His destined prey, and wraps them all in shades.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Odyssey_(Pope)/Book_XXII#:~:text=Blind%20as%20they%20were%3A%20for%20death%20e%27en%20now%20invades">Pope</a> (1725)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Nor saw<br>
Th’ infatuate men fate hov’ring o’er them all.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24269/24269-h/24269-h.htm#:~:text=nor%20saw,o%E2%80%99er%20them%20all.">Cowper</a> (1792), ll. 34-35]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>How fatal and how nigh<br>
Death's snares were set, they foolish never knew!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey_tr_into_Engl_verse_by_P_S_Wo/TYMCAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=odyssey%20worsley&pg=PA226&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22how%20fatal%20and%20how%20nigh%22">Worsley</a> (1861), st. 5]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Yet this the fools knew not<br>
That now them all the goal of death was touching!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Nearly_Literal_Translation_of_Homer_s/44YXAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA376&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22the%20fools%20knew%20not%22">Bigge-Wither</a> (1869)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Insensate they!<br>
Who felt not in that hour that one and all<br>
Upon the verge of their own ruin stood!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey_of_Homer/GcQzAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA248&printsec=frontcover">Musgrave</a> (1869), l. 54ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But they knew not in their folly that on their own heads, each and all of them, the bands of death had been made fast.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1728/1728-h/1728-h.htm#:~:text=but%20they%20knew%20not%20in%20their%20folly%20that%20on%20their%20own%20heads%2C%20each%20and%20all%20of%20them%2C%20the%20bands%20of%20death%20had%20been%20made%20fast.">Butcher/Lang</a> (1879)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>And they had no understanding, fools as they were, and vain,<br>
That to all the end of the Death-doom was hard upon them now.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey_of_Homer/VwcOAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA398&printsec=frontcover">Morris</a> (1887), ll. 32-33]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>They foolishly did not see that for them one and all destruction's cords were knotted.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Odyssey/KYlBAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA343&printsec=frontcover">Palmer</a> (1891)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>And did not perceive that death was hanging over the head of every one of them.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_(Butler)/Book_XXII#:~:text=and%20did%20not%20perceive%20that%20death%20was%20hanging%20over%20the%20head%20of%20every%20one%20of%20them.">Butler</a> (1898)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>In their folly they knew not this, that over themselves one and all the cords of destruction had been made fast.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D22%3Acard%3D1#:~:text=in%20their%20folly%20they%20knew%20not%20this%2C%20that%20over%20themselves%20one%20and%20all%20the%20cords%20of%20destruction%20had%20been%20made%20fast.">Murray</a> (1919)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>... their infatuation hiding from them the toils of death that enlaced each and every one.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/qhQAywOYz10C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA358&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22infatuation%20hiding%22">Lawrence</a> (1932)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>It had not dawned upon the fools that every one of them was marked for slaughter too.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/stream/TheOdyssey/TheOdyssey_djvu.txt#:~:text=It%20had%20not%20dawned%20upon%20the%20fools%20%0Athat%20every%20one%20of%20them%20was%20marked%20for%20slaughter%20too.">Rieu</a> (1946)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Fools, not to comprehend<br>
they were already in the grip of death.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/bafQVqR6O5kC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT472&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22grip%20of%20death%22">Fitzgerald</a> (1961)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>They had not yet realized<br>
how over all of them the terms of death were now hanging.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/EC9coOuym-kC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=lattimore%20%22terms%20of%20death%22&pg=PA59&printsec=frontcover&bsq=lattimore%20%22terms%20of%20death%22">Lattimore</a> (1965)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The fools did not perceive<br>
That already the bond of destruction were fastened on them all.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/HOMER_THE_ODYSSEY/Lf5Z9phke64C?kptab=editions&gbpv=1&bsq=%22bonds%20of%20destruction%22">Cook</a> (1967)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Poor fools, blind to the fact <br>
that all their necks were in the noose, their doom sealed.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-T2WaiIPwOMJF1pR3/Homer-The-Odyssey-Fagles_djvu.txt#:~:text=Poor%20fools%2C%20blind%20to%20the%20fact%20%0Athat%20all%20their%20necks%20were%20in%20the%20noose%2C%20their%20doom%20sealed.">Fagles</a> (1996)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>And had no idea of how tightly the net<br>
Had been drawn around them.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Odyssey/yIFAC9r4NW0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA337&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22and%20had%20no%20idea%22">Lombardo</a> (2000)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>And the poor fools never suspected how on all of the suitors the grim death bindings were fastened.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/EC9coOuym-kC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Looking%20from%20lowering%20brows%20said%20Odysseus%22&pg=PA370&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22poor%20fools%20never%20suspected%22">Merrill</a> (2002)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>It had not dawned upon the fools that the fate of all of them was sealed.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/U2Jovv1NuMsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT365&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22dawned%20upon%20the%20fools%22">DCH Rieu</a> (2002)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Fools, who did not understand that on every one of them death's ropes were now fastened tight.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/o8dLDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PR3&printsec=frontcover&bsq=fools%20who%20did%20not%20understand">Verity</a> (2016)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Those poor fools did not know [...] that the snares of death were round them all.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/PpJYDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=snares%20of%20death">Wilson</a> (2017)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Poor fools, they had no notion that over them all the bonds of destruction were set.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Odyssey/BUFJDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=odyssey%20%22underhandedly%20courted%20my%20wife%22&pg=PA335&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22over%20them%20all%20the%20bonds%20of%22">Green</a> (2018)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>In their folly,<br>
they did not understand that they were now enmeshed<br>
in destruction’s net.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://johnstoniatexts.x10host.com/homer/odyssey22html.html#:~:text=man%20on%20purpose.-,In%20their%20folly%2C,-they%20did%20not">Johnston</a> (2019), ll. 39-41]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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