In Praise of Technology

[luzula]

Rest your hands from the mill, flour-women: sleep in, even if the cocks crow to announce dawn, for Demeter has assigned the labor of your hands to the nymphs, and they, tumbling down the very edge of the wheel, spin the axle, which with its curved cogs turn the Nisyrian millstones.

--Antipater of Thessalonica, first century BC

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

I LOVE THIS.

So the original language was Greek?

[luzula]

Yes, isn't it beautiful? I found the quote in a book I'm reading, which I will review when I'm done with it. But this just stuck in my head and I had to post it. : )

And yes, the original was in Greek.

[jesse_the_k]

Just swell.

(I want to work in nymph tech support in my next life.)

[luzula]

Ha ha, are you sure? Actual nymphs might cause more havoc than unpersonified water...

[brigantine]

What a nifty description of a water-wheel mill! They really are sort of magical. :)

[luzula]

It's a nice mix of poetry and technology. : )