“Do Atreus’ sons alone of mortal men love their wives?”
ἦ μοῦνοι φιλέουσ’ ἀλόχους μερόπων ἀνθρώπων
᾿Ατρεΐδαι;
Achilles says this when the embassy comes to see him to appease his anger over Agamemnon’s taking of Briseis.
Month: March 2012
Theognis, 457-8
Publilius Syrus, Sententiae G 11
“He commits a second crime, who is not ashamed of his first”
geminat peccatum, quem delicti non pudet
Aristotle, Rhetorica 1398b
“As Sappho says, death is a great evil and the gods have judged it so: for they do not die”
ἢ ὥσπερ Σαπφώ, ὅτι τὸ ἀποθνῄσκειν κακόν· οἱ θεοὶ
γὰρ οὕτω κεκρίκασιν· ἀπέθνησκον γὰρ ἄν.
Aristotle was a great reader of poetry
Seneca the Younger, Dialogi 1.2.7
Sophocles Electra 1259
CIL IV, 1904
I am amazed, wall, that you have not fallen in ruins,
you who bear the weight of so many boring inscriptions.
admiror, paries, te non cecidisse ruinis,
qui tot scriptorum taedia sustineas.
Inscription found written on the walls of the Basilica, Theater, and Amphitheater of Pompeii.
Pindar, Pythian 3. 107-8
“I will be small in small things and big in large ones”
σμικρὸς ἐν σμικροῖς, μέγας ἐν μεγάλοις
ἔσσομαι
The Full text.
Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.349-50
“Crops are always more fertile in someone else’s fields, and the cattle next door has bigger udders”.
fertilior seges est alienis semper in agris,
vicinumque pecus grandius uber habet.
Stobaeus, 1.1.16
“Only Zeus has medicine for everything”
Ζεὺς πάντων αὐτὸς φάρμακα μοῦνος ἔχει
Stobaeus, wise man, collector of things