Monthly Archives: February 2012

Critias 9 (Stobaeus, Antholohy 3.29.11)

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

“Men become good more from practice than nature.” ἐκ μελέτης πλείους ἢ φύσεως ἀγαθοί Critias was an uncle of Plato

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Plautus, Mercator 225-6

Posted on February 28, 2012 by

“The gods make sport of mortals in miraculous ways and in their sleep send them dreams of marvellous kinds” miris modis di ludos faciunt hominibus mirisque exemplis somnia in somnis danunt Titus Maccius Plautus

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Homer, Iliad 2. 203-5

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

  “There’s no way that all of us can be king; the rule of many isn’t good—there should be one leader, one king.” οὐ μέν πως πάντες βασιλεύσομεν ἐνθάδ’ ᾿Αχαιοί· οὐκ ἀγαθὸν πολυκοιρανίη· εἷς κοίρανος ἔστω, εἷς βασιλεύς   Odysseus … Continue reading →

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Ovid, Remedia Amoris 365

Posted on February 24, 2012 by

“Envy detracts even from the genius of great Homer” ingenium magni detrectat livor Homeri Publius Ovidius Naso

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Pindar, Nemean 7.20-21

Posted on February 23, 2012 by

    “I think that the story of Odysseus’ suffering was exaggerated by sweet-worded Homer”     ἐγὼ δὲ πλέον’ ἔλπομαι λόγον ᾿Οδυσσέος ἢ πάθαν διὰ τὸν ἁδυεπῆ γενέσθ’ ῞Ομηρον·   Pindar was a poet of Epinikion. (but this line doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 2.9.11

Posted on February 22, 2012 by

“It is kingly, believe me, to want to help the less fortunate”. regia, crede mihi, res est subcurrere lapsis

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Theognis, 1185-1186

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

  “The mind and tongue are good: but they grow in few men who are masters of both”   Νοῦς ἀγαθὸν καὶ γλῶσσα• τὰ δ’ ἐν παύροισι πέφυκεν ἀνδράσιν, οἳ τούτων ἀμφοτέρων ταμίαι.   We know lamentably little about Theognis of … Continue reading →

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Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 6.6.6

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

“I would prefer the most unfair peace to the justest war” iniquissimam pacem iustissimo bello anteferrem Marcus Tullius Cicero  

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Kypria, Fragment 17 (18W) (Athenaeus, Deipnosophists)

Posted on February 17, 2012 by

“Menelaus, the best thing the gods made to scatter the cares of mortal men is wine” οἶνόν τοι, Μενέλαε, θεοὶ ποίησαν ἄριστον θνητοῖς ἀνθρώποισιν ἀποσκεδάσαι μελεδῶνας. Kypria? Deipnosophists?

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Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 3.1.158

Posted on February 16, 2012 by

“Sometimes tears carry the same weight as words” interdum lacrimae pondera vocis habent

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