„La presenza diminuisce la fama.“
— Claudio Claudiano
da De bello gildonico, 385
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Claudio Claudiano
Data di nascita: 370
Data di morte: 404
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Claudio Claudiano fu un poeta romano, sostenitore del generale Stilicone.
Frasi Claudio Claudiano
„Tutto il mondo si conforma all'esempio del re; e a muovere i sentimenti dei sudditi vale più delle leggi la condotta del sovrano.“
— Claudio Claudiano
da De quarto consulatu Honorii, 299-301
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„O Pollenzia, degna dei miei canti per i secoli eterni! | o nome insigne, o luogo di felici trionfi! | o suolo destinato alle vittorie, o memorando sepolcro | di barbari! Spesso in quei confini, su quella terra | piena tornò la vendetta ai Quiriti fidati.“
— Claudio Claudiano
da De Bello Gothico, vv. 635-640
„Quiet authority accomplishes what violence cannot, and that mandate compels more which comes from a commanding calm.“
— Claudian
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/Manlio_Theodoro*.html#239 Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli, lines 239-241].
„Virtue hidden hath no value.“
— Claudian
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/De_IV_Consulatu_Honorii*.html#222 Panegyricus de Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti, line 222].
„But he whom reason, not anger, animates is a peer of the gods.“
— Claudian
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/Manlio_Theodoro*.html#227 Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli, lines 227-228].
„No longer can I complain that the unrighteous man reaches the highest pinnacle of success. He is raised aloft that he may be hurled down in more headlong ruin.“
— Claudian
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/In_Rufinum/1*.html#21 In Rufinum, Bk. I, lines 21-23].
„Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.“
— Claudian
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/In_Rufinum/1*.html#215 In Rufinum, Bk. I, lines 215-216].
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„Whoso causes terror is himself more fearful.“
— Claudian
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/De_IV_Consulatu_Honorii*.html#290 Panegyricus de Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti, line 290].
„Presence will minish awe.“
— Claudian
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/De_Bello_Gildonico*.html#385 De Bello Gildonico, line 387].
Variant translation: Presence diminishes fame.
„Death renders all equal.“
— Claudian
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/De_Raptu_Proserpinae/2*.html#302 De Raptu Proserpinae Bk. II, line 302].
Variant translation: Death makes all things equal.
„If thou make any law or establish any custom for the general good, be the first to submit thyself thereto; then does a people show more regard for justice nor refuse submission when it has seen their author obedient to his own laws. The world shapes itself after its ruler's pattern, nor can edicts sway men's minds so much as their monarch's life; the unstable crowd ever changes along with the prince.“
— Claudian
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/De_IV_Consulatu_Honorii*.html#296 Panegyricus de Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti, lines 296-301].
„Biting poverty and cruel Cupid are my foes. Hunger I can endure; love I cannot.“
— Claudian
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/Carmina_Minora*/omnia.html#XV Epigram XV]
