Frasi di Píndaro

Pindaro è stato un poeta greco antico, tra i maggiori esponenti della lirica corale.

✵ 517 a.C. – 437 a.C.
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Píndaro frase: “Diventa ciò che sei, avendolo appreso.”

“Diventa ciò che sei, avendolo appreso.”

Le Odi

Píndaro Frasi e Citazioni

“Ahi come s'inganna il pensiero degli uomini che passano senza sapere.”

Origine: Da Frammenti, traduzione di Enzo Mandruzzato.

“Quando la città che celebro sarà distrutta, quando gli uomini che canto saranno scomparsi nell'oblio, le mie parole perdureranno.”

Origine: Citato in George Steiner, Una lettura ben fatta, in Nessuna passione spenta, p. 9.

Píndaro: Frasi in inglese

“Here profits not
To tell the whole truth with clear face unveiled.
Often is man's best wisdom to be silent.”

οὔ τοι ἅπασα κερδίων
φαίνοισα πρόσωπον ἀλάθει᾽ ἀτρεκής·
καὶ τὸ σιγᾶν πολλάκις ἐστὶ σοφώτατον ἀνθρώπῳ νοῆσαι.
Nemean 5, line 16-8; page 222. (483 BC?)

“Creatures of a day! What is a man?
What is he not? A dream of a shadow
Is our mortal being.”

Pythian 8, line 95-8; pages 162-3. (446 BC)
Contesto: Creatures of a day! What is a man?
What is he not? A dream of a shadow
Is our mortal being. But when there comes to men
A gleam of splendour given of Heaven,
Then rests on them a light of glory
And blesséd are their days.

“A good deed hidden in silence dies.”

Fragment 121; page 387

“But if a man shall hope in aught he does
To escape the eyes of god, he makes an error.”

Pindar libro Olimpiche

Olympian 1, line 63; page 6
Olympian Odes (476 BC)

“Whoever knows many things
By nature is a poet.”

Pindar libro Olimpiche

Olympian 2, line 87; page 16; the Greek simply says:
"wise is one who knows much by nature," but σοφός is Pindar's usual word for poet.
Variant translations:
Inborn of nature's wisdom
The poet's truth.
Olympian Odes (476 BC)

“Best blessing of all is water, And gold like a fiery flame gleaming at night,
Supreme amidst the pride of lordly wealth.”

Pindar libro Olimpiche

Ἄριστον μὲν ὕδωρ, ὁ δὲ χρυσὸς αἰθόμενον πῦρ ἅτε διαπρέπει
νυκτὶ μεγάνορος ἔξοχα πλούτου.
Olympian 1, line 1-2; page 1
Closer translation:
Best is water, but gold stands out blazing like fire
at night beyond haughty wealth.
Olympian Odes (476 BC)

“War is sweet to those who have no experience of it,
but the experienced man trembles exceedingly at heart on its approach.”

γλυκύ δ᾽ἀπείρῳ πόλεμος.
πεπειραμένων δέ τις ταρβεῖ προσιόντα νιν καρδία περισσῶς.
Fragment 110; page 377.
Variant translations: This phrase is the origin of the Latin proverb "Dulce bellum inexpertis" which is sometimes misattributed to Desiderius Erasmus‎.
War is sweet to them that know it not.
War is sweet to those not acquainted with it
War is sweet to those who do not know it.
War is sweet to those that never have experienced it.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

“For words
Live longer down the years than deeds.”

Nemean 4, line 6; page 213. (473 BC?)

“Do not yearn, O my soul, for immortal life!
Use to the utmost
the skill that is yours.”

Pythian 3, line 61-62.
Variant translation: Seek not, my soul, immortal life, but make the most of the resources that are within your reach.

“Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.”

As quoted in Plato's Gorgias, 484b.

“Days to come will prove the surest witness.”

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ἁμέραι δ᾽ ἐπίλοιποι
μάρτυρες σοφώτατοι.
Olympian 1, line 33-4; page 4
Olympian Odes (476 BC)

“Become such as you are, having learned what that is”

Pythian 2, line 72.
Variant translations:
Be what you know you are
Be true to thyself now that thou hast learnt what manner of man thou art
Having learned, become who you are

“Time is the best preserver of righteous men.”

Fragment 159; page 387

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