“Aren’t they behaving in such a way that, in understanding, they understand nothing?”
faciuntne intellegendo, ut nil intellegant
Terence, Andria 17
Month: July 2012
Euripides Suppliant Women 1080-1
Publilius Syrus, Sententiae L 8
“The guilty man fears the law; the innocent man fears chance”.
legem nocems veretur, fortunam innocens.
Pindar, Olympian 8.72-3
“A man who has accomplished fitting deeds forgets about death.”
᾿Αΐδα τοι λάθεται
ἄρμενα πράξαις ἀνήρ.
Really, Pindar?
Publilius Syrus, Sententiae C 38
Pindar, Olympian 8.59-60
Publilius Syrus, Sententiae P 52
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 698-9
“For the sick it is sweet to know clearly what pain remains”
τοῖς νοσοῦσί τοι γλυκὺ
τὸ λοιπὸν ἄλγος προυξεπίστασθαι τορῶς.
Sweet for the sick alone?
So says Prometheus, a titan who knows things beforehand…
Cicero, On Old Age 7
“As the old proverb goes, ‘like easily gathers with like'”.
pares autem vetere proverbio cum paribus facillime congregantur
Homer, Odyssey 11.441-3
‘Don’t be too nice to your wife:
don’t tell her every plan you think up
tell her one thing and leave another one hidden’
‘τῶ νῦν μή ποτε καὶ σὺ γυναικί περ ἤπιος εἶναι
μηδ’ οἱ μῦθον ἅπαντα πιφαυσκέμεν, ὅν κ’ ἐ¿ εἰδῇς,
ἀλλὰ τὸ μὲν φάσθαι, τὸ δὲ καὶ κεκρυμμένον εἶναι.
So goes dead Agamemnon’s advice to the living Odysseus (at least, according to Odysseus….)