Frasi di Aulo Persio Flacco
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Aulo Persio Flacco
Data di nascita: 4. Dicembre 34 d.C.
Data di morte: 24. Novembre 62 d.C.
Aulo Persio Flacco è stato un poeta satirico romano di età imperiale aderente allo stoicismo.
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Frasi Aulo Persio Flacco
dal prologo alle Satire, p. 419
Origine: traduzione di Vincenzo Monti; citato in Vincenzo Monti, Poesie, Bernardo Virzì, Palermo 1855
I, 114-115
Discedo: secuit Lucilius urbem, | te Lupe, te Muci, et genuinum fregit in illis.
Satire
Origine: Lucio Cornelio Lentulo Lupo.
Origine: Quinto Muzio Scevola Augure.
V, 79-80
Satire
Origine: Da Aulo Persio Flacco tradotto in prosa col testo a fronte ed annotazioni corrispondenti dal sacerdote Luigi Bruni, F. Fernandes, 1836, p. 107 http://books.google.it/books?id=CEcOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA107.
„None, none descends into himself, to find
The secret imperfections of his mind.“
Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere! nemo!
Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.
— Persius
Satire IV, line 23 (translated by John Dryden).
The Satires
„That master of arts, that dispenser of genius, the Belly.“
Magister artis ingenique largitor<br/>venter.
— Persius
Prologue, line 10.
The Satires
„O but it is a fine thing to have a finger pointed at one, and to hear people say, "That's the man!"“
At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier "hic est".
— Persius
Satire I, line 28.
The Satires
„Is all your knowledge to go so utterly for nothing unless other people know that you possess it?“
Usque adeone<br/>scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?
— Persius
Usque adeone
scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?
Satire I, line 26.
The Satires
„But when to-morrow comes, yesterday's morrow will have been already spent: and lo! a fresh morrow will be for ever making away with our years, each just beyond our grasp.“
Cum lux altera venit,<br/>iam cras hesternum consumpsimus; ecce aliud cras<br/>egerit hos annos et semper paulum erit ultra.
— Persius
Cum lux altera venit,
iam cras hesternum consumpsimus; ecce aliud cras
egerit hos annos et semper paulum erit ultra.
Satire V, line 67.
The Satires
„Let them recognize virtue and rot for having lost it.“
Virtutem videant intabescantque relicta.
— Persius
Satire III, line 38.
Alternate translation (by William Gifford):—
"In all her charms, set Virtue in their eye,
And let them see their loss, despair, and—die!"
The Satires
„Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.“
Nostrum est<br/>quod vivis, cinis et manes et fabula fies.<br/>vive memor leti, fugit hora.
— Persius
Nostrum est
quod vivis, cinis et manes et fabula fies.
vive memor leti, fugit hora.
Satire V, line 151.
The Satires
„Who’ll read that sort of thing?“
Quis leget haec?
— Persius
Satire I, line 2 (translated by W. S. Merwin).
The Satires
„The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears – not tears that have been got ready overnight.“
Nec nocte paratum,<br/>plorabit qui me volet incurvasse querella.
— Persius
Nec nocte paratum,
plorabit qui me volet incurvasse querella.
Satire I, line 90.
The Satires
„Don’t consult anyone’s opinions but your own.“
Nec te quaesiveris extra.
— Persius
Satire I, line 7.
The Satires
„Live with yourself: get to know how poorly furnished you are.“
Tecum habita: noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.
— Persius
Satire IV, line 52.
The Satires
