Frasi di Omero

“Cresceva, dentro al cortile, un tronco d’olivo dalle foglie sottili, rigoglioso, fiorente, largo come una colonna. Intorno a questo io eressi il talamo, che feci con pietre fittamente connesse e ricoprii con il tetto ben fatto; e la porta applicai, solida e salda. Poi recisi la chioma dell’olivo dalle foglie sottili, il tronco sgrossai dalla radice, lo piallai tutt’intorno con l’ascia di bronzo, abilmente, lo livellai a filo di squadra e ricavai una base che lavorai tutta a traforo. Cominciando da questa levigavo anche il letto, ornandolo d’oro, d’argento, d’avorio.”

Omero Odissea

Odissea

“[Sulle citazioni] Parole alate.”

“Afrodita, amante de la risa”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli

“Tutti gli uomini hanno bisogno degli dèi.”

La Ilíada y La Odisea

“Anche uno sciocco impara qualcosa quando lo colpisce.”

citato in AA.VV., Il libro delle religioni, traduzione di Anna Carbone, Gribaudo, 2017, p. 12. ISBN 9788858015810

Questa traduzione è in attesa di revisione. È corretto?

“I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!”

Omero: Frasi in inglese

“Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be more lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”

“If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.”

Homér Iliad

Variante: Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
Origine: The Iliad

“He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.”

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”

“Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth,
our mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man.”

Homér Odissea

Origine: The Odyssey

“And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it,
neither brave man nor coward, I tell you—
it's born with us the day that we are born.”

Homér Iliad

XVIII. 130–131 (tr. Robert Fagles). Cf. Iliad, XVII. 446–447.
Samuel Butler's translation:
: Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth.
Robert Fitzgerald's translation:
: Of mortal creatures, all that breathe and move,
earth bears none frailer than mankind.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Variante: Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
Origine: The Iliad

Homér Iliad

VI. 488–489 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Smiling through tears.”

“Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war.”

Homér Iliad

VI. 484 (tr. Lord Derby); of Andromache.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Life is largely a matter of expectation.”

Homér Iliad

A misquotation http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2009-August/092648.html of: Πάντων μὲν κόρος ἐστὶ καὶ ὕπνου καὶ φιλότητος μολπῆς τε γλυκερῆς καὶ ἀμύμονος ὀρχηθμοῖο, τῶν πέρ τις καὶ μᾶλλον ἐέλδεται ἐξ ἔρον εἷναι ἢ πολέμου· Τρῶες δὲ μάχης ἀκόρητοι ἔασιν. Men get Their fill of all things, of sleep and love, sweet song And flawless dancing, and most men like these things Much better than war. Only Trojans are always Thirsty for blood! Iliad, XIII, 636–639 (tr. Ennis Rees) The misquotation implies that an overweening love of war was the norm, whereas the real quote decries the Trojans as inhumane for keeping the war going. Misattributed

“And empty words are evil.”

“Few sons, indeed, are like their fathers.
Generally they are worse; but just a few are better.”

Homér Odissea

Origine: The Odyssey

“You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!”

Homér Odissea

II. 276–277 (tr. E. V. Rieu).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Origine: The Odyssey

“Some of the words you'll find within yourself,
the rest some power will inspire you to say.”

Homér Iliad

Origine: The Iliad

“Now always be the best, my boy, the bravest,
and hold your head up high above the others.”

Homér Odissea

III. 26–27 (tr. Robert Fagles); Athena to Telemachus.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Nevertheless I long—I pine, all my days—
to travel home and see the dawn of my return.”

Homér Iliad

VI. 208 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“There is the heat of Love,
the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper,
irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”

Homér Odissea

V. 219–220 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.”

Homér Iliad

XIV. 216–217 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Alexander Pope's translation:
: In this was every art, and every charm,
To win the wisest, and the coldest warm:
Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire,
The kind deceit, the still reviving fire,
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs,
Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Origine: The Iliad

“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.”

Homér Iliad

IX. 312–313 (tr. Alexander Pope).
A. H. Chase and W. G. Perry, Jr.'s translation:
: Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is the man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Origine: The Iliad

“We men are wretched things.”

Homér Odissea

VIII. 585–586 (tr. G. H. Palmer).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Origine: The Odyssey

“Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.”

Homér Iliad

Origine: The Iliad