Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 13:30:55 -0500
From: "mark hewson" <hewson-AT-acsu.buffalo.edu>
Subject: Re: MB: holderlin epigraph


--On Wednesday, February 03, 1999, 2:13 PM +0000 "steve m"
<stevem-AT-epic.co.uk> wrote: 

> Wakey, wakey Blanchot list!  Sorry for breaking the slumber with a trivial
> question, but I wonder if any one can tell me where the Holderlin epigraph
> ("It behooves mortals to speak with the restraint of the gods ...") in
> The_Work_of_Fire is from?
> 
> I have read and/or looked through Michael Hamburger's translations without
> finding it. Not that it matters much - I'm a lapsed academic - but once an
> anorak ...
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> steve m
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i believe it is from "Germanien", perhaps translated as "Germany"
mark h.