As long as he does not know himself

At the beginning of the story of the passion and death of Narcissus, as recorded in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the beautiful nymph Liriope asks the blind seer Tiresias whether her child Narcissus will have a long life and reach a fine old age… He augures: ‘As long as he does not know himself’. Lees meer over As long as he does not know himself