Monthly Archives: November 2011

Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 9.4.1

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

“If you have a garden in your library, you’ve got it all”   si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil

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Heraclitus, Fragment 61

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

The road upward and down is one and the same ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ὡυτή. Some Heraclitus references.

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Horace, Ars Poetica 359

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

  “Sometimes even good Homer nods off”   quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus   Quintus?   Ars Poetica  

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Solon, Fragment 6.2-4

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

“Satiety breeds arrogance whenever men with unfit minds have great wealth.”   τίκτει γὰρ κόρος ὕβριν, ὅταν πολὺς ὄλβος ἕπηται ἀνθρώποις ὁπ̣όσοις μὴ νόος ἄρτιος ἦι.   Solon the law-maker  

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Juvenal, Satires 3.184

Posted on November 26, 2011 by

  “You can find anything in Rome – for a price.”   omnia Romae cum pretio   Juvenal who?  

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Homer, Iliad 4.320

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

  “The gods do not give everything to men at the same time.” ἀλλ᾿ οὐ πως ἅμα πάντα θεοὶ δόσαν ἀνθρώποισιν The full text. 

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Seneca, Epistulae Morales 93.2.4

Posted on November 24, 2011 by

  “We should take care to live well, not long”   non ut diu vivamus curandum est, sed ut satis   Seneca the Younger    

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Semonides, Fragment 3

Posted on November 23, 2011 by

  “We have ample time to be dead yet we live our few years badly”   πολλὸς γὰρ ἥμιν ἐστι τεθνάναι χρονος ζῶμεν δ᾿ ἀριθμῷ παῦρα κακῶς ἔτεα   What do we know about Semonides of Amorgos?  

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Martial, Epigrams 12.46.2

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

    I can’t live with you or without you   nec tecum possum vivere nec sine te

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Euripides, Phoenician Women, 392

Posted on November 21, 2011 by

“The life of a slave: not saying what one thinks”   δούλου τόδ᾿ εἶπας, μὴ λέγειν ἅ τις φρονεῖ

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