Monthly Archives: June 2012

Seneca the Younger, Dialogues 5.31.1

Posted on June 28, 2012 by

“No one likes their own things when they look at others’”. nulli ad aliena respicienti sua placent Seneca the Younger

Posted in Latin | Leave a comment

Plato, Lysis 210d

Posted on June 27, 2012 by

“If you are wise, then everyone will be your family and friend.”   ἐὰν μὲν ἄρα σοφὸς γένῃ, ὦ παῖ, πάντες σοι φίλοι καὶ πάντες σοι οἰκεῖοι ἔσονται   (Because you are useful and good)

Posted in Greek | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Martial, Epigrams 11.32.8

Posted on June 26, 2012 by

“It is not poverty, Nestor, to have nothing”. non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil. Marcus Valerius Martialis

Posted in Latin | Leave a comment

Sophocles, Antigone 648-9

Posted on June 25, 2012 by

    “Son, never lose your mind for the pleasure of a woman.”     μή νύν ποτ᾽, ὦ παῖ, τὰς φρένας ὑφ᾽ ἡδονῆς γυναικὸς οὕνεκ᾽ ἐκβάλῃς     Poor advice, perhaps, in the city of Thebes

Posted in Greek | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Cicero, On Old Age 24

Posted on June 22, 2012 by

“No one is so old that he thinks he could not live another year” nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere Marcus Tullius Cicero

Posted in Latin | Leave a comment

Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos, 981-2

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

    “Many a man before you has slept with his mother in dreams.”   πολλοὶ γὰρ ἤδη κἀν ὀνείρασιν βροτῶν μητρὶ ξυνηυνάσθησαν.  

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Horace, Epistulae 1.18.68

Posted on June 20, 2012 by

“Always take care what you say, as well as about whom, and to whom  you say it”. quid de quoque viro et cui dicas, saepe videto. Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Posted in Latin | 1 Comment

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 50

Posted on June 19, 2012 by

    “No one is free but Zeus”   ἐλεύθερος γὰρ οὔτις ἐστὶ πλὴν Διός.   This from Hermes speaking to Prometheus  

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Phaedrus, Fabulae 1.10.1-2

Posted on June 18, 2012 by

“Whoever becomes famous for a shameful deceit loses all credibility — even if he tells the truth”. quicumque turpi fraude semel innotuit, etiam si verum dicit, amittit fidem. Phaedrus 

Posted in Latin | Leave a comment

Heraclitus fr. 44

Posted on June 15, 2012 by

    “The people must fight for law just as they would for the walls”     μάχεσθαι χρὴ τὸν δῆμον ὑπὲρ τοῦ νόμου ὅκωσπερ τείχεος.   Unusually lucid for the obscure philosopher

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment