for so it ever is, when a man has been far from his country as long as I have now, wandering through the many cities of men in sore distress.
ἡ γὰρ δίκη , ὁππότε πάτρης ἧς ἀπέῃσιν ἀνὴρ τόσσον χρόνον ὅσσον ἐγὼ νῦν , πολλὰ βροτῶν ἐπὶ ἄστε' ἀλώμενος , ἄλγεα πάσχων · [0] [2] [1]
ὁ γάρ δίκη , ὁπότε πάτρη ὅς ἄπειμι ἀνήρ τόσος χρόνος ὅσος ἐγώ νῦν , πολύς βροτός ἐπί ἄστυ ἀλάομαι , ἄλγος πάσχω ·