ἀλλά τοι
ἤρατο τῶν ἀπεόντων: οἷα καὶ πολλοὶ πάθον.
ἔστι δὲ φῦλον ἐν ἀνθρώποισι ματαιότατον,
ὅστις αἰσχύνων ἐπιχώρια παπταίνει τὰ πόρσω,
μεταμώνια θηρεύων ἀκράντοις ἐλπίσιν.

No: like many others, she hungered
for things remote.
There is a shiftless tribe among men,
which scorns what is present
and looks far away, hunting down empty air
with hopes that cannot be fulfilled. 

- Pindar’s “Pythian III,” 20-25