“It is incredible how easily the sweetness of speech leads even great men away from the truth”
incredibilest . . . quam facile etiam magnos viros dulcedo orationis abducat a vero.
Month: August 2012
Theognis 627-628
Horace, Epistles 1.2.54
“If the container is dirty, whatever you put in it will go bad”.
sincerum est nisi vas, quodcumque fundis acescit.
Hesiod Works and Days, 289-90
Publilius Syrus, Sententiae O.15
“The eyes initiate love, but familiarity completes it”.
Sophocles Ajax 260-2
“Recognizing that your suffering has been caused by no one else magnifies the pain”
τὸ γὰρ ἐσλεύσσειν οἰκεῖα πάθη,
μηδενὸς ἄλλου παραπράξαντος,
μεγάλας ὀδύνας ὑποτείνει.
But did Ajax really cause all of this pain for himself?
Horace, Ars Poetica 335
“Whatever you are teaching, be brief . . .”
quidquid praecipies, esto brevis
