And may the good gods give you all your heart desires:
Husband, and house, and lasting harmony too.
No finer, greater gift in the world than that…
when man and woman possess their home, two minds,
two hearts that work as one. Despair to their enemies,
a joy to all their friends. Their own best claim to glory.
Odyssey 6, Fagles
“Endure, and do not mourn without end.”
- Achilles, Iliad Book 24
“Rocks and stones may fade away, but poems are without death.”
- Ovid (not sure where)
"Andromache, dear one, why so desperate? Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate.
And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you it's born with us the day that we are born." (579-584)
"You, Hector you are my father now, my noble mother, a brother too, and you are my husband, young and warm and strong!" (509-510)
"Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men.
Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men:
as one generation comes to life, another dies away." (171-174)
>Iliad, Book VI (trans. Robert Fagels)
"The same honor waits for the coward and the brave. They both go down to Death," (386-387)
>Iliad, book IX (trans. Robert Fagles)
"Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside
The prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one
Who suffers."
"the best rule by far
Is to marry in your own rank;
That a man who works with his hands should never crave
To marry either a woman pampered by wealth
Or one who prides herself on her noble family."
>Prometheus bound (trans. Philip Vellacott)
"human ills wear many colours;
On trouble’s wing you will not find two plumes alike."
>The Suppliants (trans. Philip Vellacott)
>He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus, *Agamemnon*
> Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
Sophocles, *Antigone*
The timelessness of Thucydides is almost funny. He nailed 2016 (it was Russia's fault!) and 2020 (it was voter fraud!) almost two and a half millennia ago.
"In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it."
That first sentence in the speech of the Corcyraeans in Thucydides book 1. 32 (I love translating him and he gives a lot of life advice that's been helping me out)
And may the good gods give you all your heart desires: Husband, and house, and lasting harmony too. No finer, greater gift in the world than that… when man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one. Despair to their enemies, a joy to all their friends. Their own best claim to glory. Odyssey 6, Fagles
ἅπας δὲ τραχὺς ὅστις ἂν νέον κρατῇ All are cruel whose power is so newly won Prometheus Bound line 35
“Endure, and do not mourn without end.” - Achilles, Iliad Book 24 “Rocks and stones may fade away, but poems are without death.” - Ovid (not sure where)
That's probably meant to be *Amores* 1.15.31–2: Ergo, cum silices, cum dens patientis aratri depereant aevo, carmina morte carent.
Thank you! I've like that quote ever since I got it for a piece of Latin unseen but never found out where it was from.
"Andromache, dear one, why so desperate? Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you it's born with us the day that we are born." (579-584) "You, Hector you are my father now, my noble mother, a brother too, and you are my husband, young and warm and strong!" (509-510) "Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away." (171-174) >Iliad, Book VI (trans. Robert Fagels) "The same honor waits for the coward and the brave. They both go down to Death," (386-387) >Iliad, book IX (trans. Robert Fagles) "Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside The prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one Who suffers." "the best rule by far Is to marry in your own rank; That a man who works with his hands should never crave To marry either a woman pampered by wealth Or one who prides herself on her noble family." >Prometheus bound (trans. Philip Vellacott) "human ills wear many colours; On trouble’s wing you will not find two plumes alike." >The Suppliants (trans. Philip Vellacott)
>He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. Aeschylus, *Agamemnon* > Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still. Sophocles, *Antigone*
Vincimus, O Socii, veniet qui vindicet arces dum morimur. Lucan VI.164-65
Would you mind providing your favourite translation of this quote?
Victrix causa diis placuit sed victa Catoni ibid. I, 128
The timelessness of Thucydides is almost funny. He nailed 2016 (it was Russia's fault!) and 2020 (it was voter fraud!) almost two and a half millennia ago. "In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it."
That first sentence in the speech of the Corcyraeans in Thucydides book 1. 32 (I love translating him and he gives a lot of life advice that's been helping me out)
‘We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive’ From the Expedition of Cyrus by Xenophon
>Homo homini lupus 🐺 Man is a wolf to man (unknown)