Sophocles / Σοφοκλῆς : (c. 497/6 BC – c. 406/5 BC) a tragedian of classical Athens.
Truly I count mariners among unhappy mortals—they to whom neither god nor mortal men can ever give their due reward in wealth! Ever risking their distant enterprises on slender chances, amid many ruinous wanderings they either keep or lose their profits! But I revere and praise those mortals who constantly find the courage to earn a scarce and painful living with their much-enduring hands.
… For there is no pain like long life.
Sophocles, Skyrioi (fragment)
