“You would be wrong less often, if you should realize what you don’t know”
minus saepe pecces, si scias quid nescias.
Month: February 2012
Solon, Fragment 13.64
“The gifts of the gods must not be rejected”
δῶρα δ᾿ ἄφυκτα θεῶν γίγνεται ἀθανάτων
Solon, the lawgiver, has many things to say.
(In Latin you’d need to use the passive periphrastic to say this!)
Juvenal, Satires 2.24
“Who would put up with the Gracchi complaining about sedition?”
quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes?
What is Juvenal talking about?
Heraclitus, Fragment 73
Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales 85.32
Theognis 1363-64
“I will never hurt you by leaving and no man
will persuade me not to love you”
Οὐδαμά σ’ οὐδ’ ἀπεὼν δηλήσομαι· οὐδέ με πείσει
οὐδεὶς ἀνθρώπων ὥστε με μή σε φιλεῖν.
Seneca the Younger, Agamemnon 129-30
“So whatever it is, give yourself time and space:
what reason cannot, often delay is able to cure”.
proin quidquid est, da tempus ac spatium tibi:
quod ratio non quit, saepe sanauit mora.
Homer, Iliad 1.231
You are a people eating king who rules over nobodies
δημοβόρος βασιλεὺς ἐπεὶ οὐτιδανοῖσιν ἀνάσσεις·
So Achilles speaks to Agamemnon.
The Full Text.
Publilius Syrus, Sententiae M.54
“A bad plan is one that can’t be changed”
malum est consilium quod mutari non potest