Monthly Archives: March 2012

Homer, Iliad 9.340-1

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

    “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 … Continue reading →

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Theognis, 457-8

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

  A young wife is no advantage for an old man, Just like a boat that doesn’t heed its rudder     Οὔ τοι σύμφορόν ἐστι γυνὴ νέα ἀνδρὶ γέροντι· οὐ γὰρ πηδαλίωι πείθεται ὡς ἄκατος,   Theognis doesn’t have … Continue reading →

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Publilius Syrus, Sententiae G 11

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

“He commits a second crime, who is not ashamed of his first” geminat peccatum, quem delicti non pudet Publilius Syrus

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Aristotle, Rhetorica 1398b

Posted on March 26, 2012 by

“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 … Continue reading →

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Seneca the Younger, Dialogi 1.2.7

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

“He who has struggled with continuous troubles gets hardened to injury and bends to no misfortune” cui adsidua fuit cum incommodis suis rixa, callum per iniurias duxit nec ulli malo cedit Seneca the Younger

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Sophocles Electra 1259

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

“When the time is wrong, don’t talk too much” οὗ μή ‘στι καιρὸς μὴ μακρὰν βούλου λέγειν Who is Elektra? The full text

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CIL IV, 1904

Posted on March 21, 2012 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Pindar, Pythian 3. 107-8

Posted on March 20, 2012 by

    “I will be small in small things and big in large ones”   σμικρὸς ἐν σμικροῖς, μέγας ἐν μεγάλοις ἔσσομαι     The Full text.    

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Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.349-50

Posted on March 19, 2012 by

“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.  Ovidius Publius Naso

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Stobaeus, 1.1.16

Posted on March 16, 2012 by

“Only Zeus has medicine for everything” Ζεὺς πάντων αὐτὸς φάρμακα μοῦνος ἔχει Stobaeus, wise man, collector of things

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