affection trumps force

 et errat longe, mea quidem sententia,

 Qui imperium credat esse gravius aut stabilius

Vi quod fit, quam ilhud quod amicitia adjungitur.

if you ask my opinion, it is quite untrue that authority is firmer or more stable when it relies on force than when it is associated with affection.

- Terrence, Adelphi, I. i, 40-3

cui bono

Politics professor in college quoted this a lot.

According to Cicero it's from Cassius:

"illud Cassianum 'cui bono' fuerit"

Philippic II XIV. 35

Propertius Elegies 4.8

Cum fieret nostro totiens iniuria lecto,
mutato volui castra movere toro.
Phyllis Aventinae quaedam est vicina Dianae,
sobria grata parum: cum bibit, omne decet.
altera Tarpeios est inter Teia lucos,
candida, sed potae non satis unus erit.
his ego constitui noctem lenire vocatis,
et Venere ignota furta novare mea.
unus erat tribus in secreta lectulus herba.
quaeris discubitus? inter utramque fui.

From Ovid

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.

Ovid, Metamorphoses, VIII, 188

The meaning of Genesis I : 28

Increase and multiply

αυξανεσθε και πληθυνεσθε

Crescite et multiplicamini

interpretation; engage as a duty, or even enjoy, 'procreational activities'...!

Nil admirari

Nil admirari prope res est una, Numici,
Solaque quae possit facere et servare beatum.

1. Horace, “Epistulae” (1,6,1)

Ave Caesar

 "Ave Caesar, nos morituri te salutamus" 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ave_Imperator,_morituri_te_salutant

Zweig had to learn 5 languages

This is late 19th century Austria:


French, English, Italian, Latin & Ancient Greek.

Me, I have both Italian and Deutch dictionaries but that 's all lol, learned a bit of French in high school(plan to learn more by reading Montaigne), and am leasurely reading Latin and Ancient Greek classics.  I envy Zweig lol.

Latin Library

LATIN LIBRARY

St. Jerome's Temptation

From Witham, p. 71;

"poor wretch that I was, I used to fast and then read Cicero. After shedding thears which the remembrance of past sins brought forth from my inmost heart, I would take in my hands a volume of Plautus. When I came to myself and began to read a prophet again, I rebelled at the uncouth style..."

Ancient Christian Writes: Letters of St. Jerome, vol. 1, trans. Charles Christopher Mierow(New York: Paulist Press, 1963), 165-66.

Freaking hilarious lol, I must find out the original Latin one.

i am not keen to please you

nil nimium studeo, caesar, tibi velle placere,
nec scire utrum sis albus an ater homo.

i am not particularly keen to want to please you, caesar,
nor to know whether you are white or black.

carmina 93, catullus

reader determine the usefulness of a book

Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli

Books succeed or fail(have their own destinies) according to the ability of the reader

Terentianus Maurus 1282ff.

Catullus on foolish smiles

Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla set.

Carmina 39

Nothing is more foolish than foolish laughter

My Ovid edition by Musgrove got it wrong

Metamorphoses, Bk 3, 1st or 2nd page?

conpagibus

nope.

Teubner says compagibus, and that's correct.

Now Archive have a cute OLD Teubner one, for a mere $10, complete one(of course only the original Latin text), but it's too old -_-

Horny Jupiter

gaudet amans et, dum veniat sperata voluptas,
oscula dat minibus; vix iam, vix cetera differ

Metamorphoses, bk II, ln 862-3

mottos

Of city of Paris

Fluctuat nec mergitur

Of the Orange family

Je maintiendrai. 'I will stand firm'

choking in latin

mentions inops gelida formidine

Metamorphoses, bk 2, ln 199

Vergil:the dream of world peace

Sublime passage:

Aspera tum positis mitescent saecula bellis;
cana Fides et Vesta, Remo cum fratre Quirinus
iura dabunt; dirae ferro et compagibus artis
claudentur Belli portae; Furor impius intus
saeva sedens super arma et centum vinctus aenis
post tergum nodis fremet horridus ore cruento

buccinator tantum

Francis Bacon - 1838 - ‎Philosophy

Ego enim buccinator tantum, pugnam non ineo ; unus fortasse ex iis, de quibus Homcnis : XaipiTt, KiïpvKit, Aias ôyyeXoi qSi Kai Atipan. Hi enim inter hostes,  ...

Useful phrase. It's like 'all bark and no bite' or ' bark is worse than bite'.

Quoted from Barzun's Darwin section.

to losers

Says Aeneas,

"Revocate animos maestumque timorem
Mittite; forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit"