Caecilius Statius - Select Quotes
May 26, 2008
Hi sunt inimici pessumi fronte hilaro corde tristi. [Your worst enemies are those whose faces are cheerful while their hearts are bitter.]
~ in Hypobolimaeus
Vivas ut possis quando nec quis ut velis. [Live as you can since you cannot live as you would.]
~ in Plocium
Serit arbores quae saeclo prosint alteri. [He plants trees to be useful to another generation.]
~ in Synephebi
Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.
Titus Maccius Plautus - Select Quotes
May 7, 2008
Tacitast melior mulier semper quam loquens. [A woman is always worth more seen than heard.]
~ in Rudens -1114
Quem di diligunt adulescens moritur, dum valet sentit sapit. [He whom the gods love dies young, while he has strength and senses and wits.
~ in Bacchides, -816
Euripides - Select Quotes
April 27, 2008
The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or any fire itself.
~ in Andromache
Man’s greatest tyrants are his wife and children.
~ in Oedipus
Diairesis and Prohairesis
April 13, 2008
Diogenes Laertius has handed down to us some fascinating source material in his work Lives of Eminent Philosophers
