Drinking Songs (Carmen Convivialia, 913)

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Athenenaus, Scholars at Dinner (11.783e)

 

 

“Mortal man doesn’t need much: only to love and to eat.”

 

 

οὐ χρὴ πόλλ᾿ ἔχειν θνητὸν ἄνθρωπον / ἀλλ᾿ ἐρᾶν καὶ κατεσθίειν.

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Original translations of famous words from Ancient Greece and Rome

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