Frasi di Esiodo

Esiodo è stato un poeta greco antico, le cui opere sono fatte risalire al periodo tra la fine dell'VIII e l'inizio del VII secolo a.C. Wikipedia  

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“Tale legge, infatti, il Cronide (Zeus) ha dato agli uomini: che i pesci, le fiere e gli uccelli volanti si divorino tra di loro, perché non hanno giustizia; agli uomini, invece, ha dato la giustizia.”

vv. 276-280
Le opere e i giorni
Origine: Citato nell'introduzione di Alessandra Borgia a Plutarco, I dispiaceri della carne. Perì sarcophagìas, Stampa alternativa, Roma, 1995, p. 6. ISBN 88-7226-269-0

“Chi della donna si fida, si fida dei ladri.”

v. 375; 2007
Le opere e i giorni

“Stolti, perché non sanno quanto più grande è la metà dell'intero.”

v. 40; 2007
Le opere e i giorni

“Le opere spettano ai giovani, i consigli agli uomini maturi e le preghiere ai vecchi.”

Origine: Citato in Arpocrazione, Lessico dei dieci oratori, voce ἔργα νέων; traduzione in Oratori attici minori, traduzione di Mario Marzi, UTET, 1995, p. 273. ISBN 978-88-02-02633-6

Frasi su cuore di Esiodo

Esiodo: Frasi in inglese

“Do not get a name either as lavish or as churlish; as a friend of rogues or as a slanderer of good men.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 715.

“Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.”

Origine: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 754.

“Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 707.

“Neighbour vies with his neighbour as he hurries after wealth. This Strife is wholesome for men.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 23.

“Hunger is altogether a meet comrade for the sluggard.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 302.

“A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 346.

“But the rest, countless plagues, wander amongst men; for earth is full of evils and the sea is full.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 100.

“Take your fill when the cask is first opened and when it is nearly spent, but midways be sparing: it is poor saving when you come to the lees.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Variant translation: At the beginning of the cask and at the end take thy fill, but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom saving comes too late.
Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 368 (translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White).

“The best treasure a man can have is a sparing tongue.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 719.

“They died, as if o'ercome by sleep.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 116.

“It will not always be summer, build barns.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 503.

“The man who trusts womankind trusts deceivers.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 375.

“Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Variant translation: Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man.
Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 240.

“There's no place like home.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 365.

“The generation of the man who swears truly is better thenceforward.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 285.

“He is a fool who tries to withstand the stronger, for he does not get the mastery and suffers pain besides his shame.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 210.

“Only when he has suffered does the fool learn.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 218.

“Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 25.

“For in misery men grow old quickly.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 93.

“If you should put even a little on a little, and should do this often, soon this too would become big.”

Hesiod libro Le opere e i giorni

Variant translation: If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great.
Origine: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 361.

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