ethos = moral laws, morality antropus (I assume it must be the plural form as the correct would be anthropous or antropou) = of man, of men, men daimos = suffering, torture ethos -> tortures -> men = morality tortures men or men suffer from the laws of morality
Can not be "is torturing", that would imply a short action that takes place in the present. And the initial text is actually a saying, expresses maybe a general truth, the simple present is correct used in the English translation.
"Can not be "is torturing", that would imply a short action that takes place in the present. And the initial text is actually a saying, expresses maybe a general truth, the simple present is correct used in the English translation."