Frasi di Menandro

Origine: Da La doppia burla, fram., 125, traduzione di Giacomo Leopardi in Amore e Morte; citato in AA. VV. 2013, § 1971.

da Frammenti, 857

Origine: Da Frammenti, 591; citato in AA. VV. 2013, § 81.

Origine: Da Frammenti, 761 K; citato in AA. VV. 2013, § 3678.

Origine: Da Frammenti, 622; citato in AA. VV. 2013, § 3829.

Origine: Da Frammenti, 561; citato in AA. VV. 2013, § 1900.

da The Woman Possessed with a Divinity, frammento 227

Origine: Da Versi singoli, 564; citato in AA. VV. 2013, § 1012.

Origine: Da La donna di Andro.

Origine: Filippide, politico ateniese del IV secolo a.C. noto per la sua magrezza scheletrica (Mario Marzi, Oratori attici minori, UTET, 1995, pp. 200-201. ISBN 978-88-02-02633-6).
Origine: Da Ira, fr. conservato da Ateneo di Naucrati in Deipnosofisti, XII, 552 e; traduzione in L. Canfora (a cura di), I deipnosofisti: Libri XII-XV, Roma, 2001. ISBN 978-88-8402-355-1

Origine: Da La ragazza beota, fram. 90; citato in AA. VV. 2013, § 2942.

Origine: Da Fanio, fram. 499; citato in AA. VV. 2013, § 998.

Origine: Da Il misantropo, 449-51; citato in Porfirio, De abstinentia, traduzione di Roberto Pomelli, in AA. VV., L'anima degli animali, Einaudi, 2015, p. 341. ISBN 978-88-06-21101-1

Gorgias.
Dyskolos
Contesto: Even if you were a softy, you took the mattock, you dug,
you were willing to work. In this part he most shows himself a man,
whoever tolerates making himself equal to another,
rich to poor. For this man will bear a change of fortune
with self-control. You have given a sufficient proof of your character. 
I wish only that you remain as you are.

Lady of Andros, fragment 50.

Monosticha.

Knemon.
Variant translation: I don't hold with people saying more than they need; but there is one thing more, my child, that I'd like you to know. I just want to say a few things to you about life, and the way people behave. You know, if we were all kind to one another, there'd be no need for law courts, there'd be no arresting people and putting them into prison, and there would be no more war. Everyone would have his little bit, and be content. But maybe you like modern ways better? Well, live that way, then! This difficult and bad-tempered old man will soon be out of the way.
As translated by William Geoffrey Arnott http://www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/menander.htm.
Dyskolos
Contesto: To say more than what's necessary
I don't think is appropriate for a man. Except know this, child —
for I wish to tell you a little about me and my character —
if everyone were like me there wouldn't be law courts,
and they wouldn't take them away to prisons,
and there wouldn't be wars, but having goods in measure each man would be happy.
But perhaps those things are more pleasing. Act that way.
This difficult and grouchy old man will be out of your way.

[Epigramatic] Sentences, 425
He whom the gods love dies young.
The Double Deceiver, frag. 4.
Originale: (el) ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνῄσκει νέος
Variante: ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν, ἀποθνῄσκει νέος.
Origine: Menander: The Plays and Fragments

The Girl Who Gets Flogged, fragment 422.