Frasi di Marco Anneo Lucano
Marco Anneo Lucano
Data di nascita: 3. Novembre 39 d.C.
Data di morte: 30. Aprile 65 d.C.
Altri nomi: Lucan
Marco Anneo Lucano è stato un poeta romano.
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Frasi Marco Anneo Lucano
„Giove è tutto quello che vedi ed ogni movimento che compi.“
— Marco Anneo Lucano, libro Pharsalia
IX, 580
Iuppiter est, quodcumque vides, quodcumque moveris.
Pharsalia
„La causa del vincitore piacque agli dei, quella del vinto a Catone.“
— Marco Anneo Lucano, libro Pharsalia
I, 128
Victrix causa deis placuit, sed victa Catoni.
Pharsalia
„All that we see is God; every motion we make is God also.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, libro Pharsalia
Book IX, line 578 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Originale: (la) Estque dei sedes nisi terra et pontus et aer
et caelum et virtus? superos quid quaerimus ultra?
Jupiter est quodcumque vides, quocumque moveris.
Contesto: Has he any dwelling-place save earth and sea, the air of heaven and virtuous hearts? Why seek we further for deities? All that we see is God; every motion we make is God also.
„But Caesar had more than a mere name and military reputation: his energy could never rest, and his one disgrace was to conquer without war.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, libro Pharsalia
Sed non in Caesare tantum
nomen erat nec fama ducis, sed nescia virtus
stare loco, solusque pudor non vincere bello.
Book I, line 143 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Originale: (la) Sed non in Caesare tantum<br/>nomen erat nec fama ducis, sed nescia virtus<br/>stare loco, solusque pudor non vincere bello.
„But silenced now are laws in war“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, libro Pharsalia
Book I, line 277 (tr. E. Ridley).
Pharsalia
Originale: (la) Postquam leges bello siluere coactae
pellimur e patriis laribus patimurque volentes
exilium.
Contesto: But silenced now are laws in war: we driven from our homes; yet is our exile willing.
„The hungry slave
Brings danger to his master, not himself.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, libro Pharsalia
Book III, line 152 (tr. E. Ridley).
Pharsalia
Originale: (la) Non sibi sed domino grauis est quae seruit egestas.
„Either no feeling remains to the soul after death, or death itself matters not at all.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, libro Pharsalia
Book III, line 39 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Originale: (la) Aut nihil est sensus animis a morte relictum
aut mors ipsa nihil.
„Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, libro Pharsalia
Book IV, line 702 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Originale: (la) Audendo magnus tegitur timor.
„Which had the fairer pretext for warfare, we may not know: each has high authority to support him; for, if the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, libro Pharsalia
Book I, line 128 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Tho. Hobbes's translation:
: The side that won the Gods approved most,
But Cato better lik'd the side that lost.
Jane Wilson Joyce's translation:
: The conquering cause pleased the gods, but the conquered pleased Cato.
Pharsalia
Originale: (la) Quis iustius induit arma
scire nefas: magno se iudice quisque tuetur;
Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni.
„[She] is not permitted to reveal as much as she is suffered to know.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, libro Pharsalia
Book V, line 176 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Originale: (la) Nec tantum prodere vati
quantum scire licet.
