Aristomenes, Assistants, fr. 3
“I hate you because you say awful things about me.”
μισῶ σ᾿ ὁτιὴ λέγεις με ταἰσχρά.
Naevius [=Nonius 73, 16]
“May he not inspire the deep hate of my powerful spirit.”
Ne ille mei feri ingeni atque animi acrem acrimoniam
Naevius, Incerta 34
“I hate people who mumble: so tell me what you fear clearly.”
Odi summussos; proinde aperte dice quid sit quod times.
Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 7
“Is there anyone then who hates me more than I hate myself?”
ergo quisquam me magis odit quam ego?
Aristophanes, Birds 1548
“I hate all the gods, as you well know…”
μισῶ δ᾿ ἅπαντας τοὺς θεούς, ὡς οἶσθα σύ—
Diogenes Laertius, 1.5.88
“Bias used to tell people to measure life as if they were going to live for both a long time and a short one and also to love people as if they will hate them, since most people are bad.”
ἔλεγέ τε τὸν βίον οὕτω μετρεῖν ὡς καὶ πολὺν καὶ ὀλίγον χρόνον βιωσομένους, καὶ φιλεῖν ὡς μισήσοντας· τοὺς γὰρ πλείστους εἶναι κακούς
Greek Anthology 12.172 Euenus
“If it hurts to hate and hurts to love, I’ll choose
To take the useful wound from two evils.”
Εἰ μισεῖν πόνος ἐστί, φιλεῖν πόνος, ἐκ δύο λυγρῶν
αἱροῦμαι χρηστῆς ἕλκος ἔχειν ὀδύνης.
Aeschylus, fr. 353
“Mortals don’t hate death fairly
Since it is the greatest bulwark against our many evils”
ὡς οὐ δικαίως θάνατον ἔχθουσιν βροτοί,
ὅσπερ μέγιστον ῥῦμα τῶν πολλῶν κακῶν
Tacitus, Agricola 42
“It is central to human nature to hate someone you have harmed.”
proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris
Aelian, Letter 14
“I’m crazy and murderous and I hate the human race.”
ἐγὼ μαίνομαι καὶ φονῶ καὶ μισῶ τὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένος
Diogenes Laertius, 2.8.96
“[the followers of Aristippos] used to say that mistakes should be pardoned: for people do not err willingly, but under the force of some kind of passion. And we should not hate: it is better to teach someone to change.”
ἔλεγον τὰ ἁμαρτήματα συγγνώμης τυγχάνειν· οὐ γὰρ ἑκόντα ἁμαρτάνειν, ἀλλά τινι πάθει κατηναγκασμένον. καὶ μὴ μισήσειν, μᾶλλον δὲ μεταδιδάξειν.
Statius, Thebaid 8.738
“I hate my limbs and this fragile work of a body, a deserter of souls.”
odi artus fragilemque hunc corporis usum,desertorem animi.
Philostratus, Heroicus 8
“Hate is fear’s kin.”
συγγενὲς γὰρ φόβῳ μῖσος
Cicero, Philippic 12.30
“I will be forced to fear not only those who hate me but those who envy me too,”
tum erunt mihi non ei solum qui me oderunt sed illi etiam qui invident extimescendi.
Dicta Catonis 21
“High things fall because of hate; but minor things are raised up by love.”
Alta cadunt odiis, parva extolluntur amore
Greek Anthology 12.103
“I know how to love those who love; and I know how to hate
When someone wrongs me. I am not inexperienced in either.”
Οἶδα φιλεῖν φιλέοντας· ἐπίσταμαι, ἤν μ᾿ ἀδικῇ τις,
μισεῖν· ἀμφοτέρων εἰμὶ γὰρ οὐκ ἀδαής.
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 5.465
“FML. Why do the gods hate me so much?”
“Ὤ μοι ἐγώ, τί νυ τόσσον ἀπέχθομαι ἀθανάτοισιν;
Cicero, Letters to Friends Caelius Rubus to Cicero (VIII.14)
“I love the cause but hate the people”
causam illam unde homines odi.
Hedylus, Epigrams 1856
“I hate living for no reason and not being drunk.”
μισῶ ζῆν ἐς κενὸν οὐ μεθύων.
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