Publio Cornelio Tacito frasi celebri
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“[Rivolto a Tiberio] La repubblica era un corpo solo e che da un'anima sola doveva essere guidata.”
Gaio Asinio Gallo: p. 15; 1974
Frasi su tempo di Publio Cornelio Tacito
Germania
Publio Cornelio Tacito Frasi e Citazioni
“Irritarsi per una critica vuol dire riconoscere di averla meritata.”
citato in Selezione dal Reader's Digest, febbraio 1976
Germania
“E la folla lo oltraggiava da morto con la stessa bassezza con cui lo aveva adulato da vivo.”
III, 85
Et vulgus eadem pravitate insectabatur interfectum qua foverat viventem.
Storie
Giunio Bleso; p. 20; 1974
“La riverenza è maggiore da lontano.”
citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 586
“Ma quelle (imagini) di Bruto e di Cassio più di tutte vi lampeggiavano col non essere.”
traduzione di Davanzati, citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 728
Annali
“Source: Vale per tutti Tito Livio.”
1974
Le vicende, liete e dolorose, dell'antico popolo romano furono tramandate da illustri scrittori e a narrare dei tempi di Augusto non mancarono splendidi ingegni. (p. 3; 1974)
Sed veteris populi Romani prospera vel adversa claris scriptoribus memorata sunt; temporibusque Augusti dicendis non defuere decora ingenia.
I, 1
Annali
Publio Cornelio Tacito: Frasi in inglese
“The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.”
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
Book III, 27
Variant translations:
The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
And now bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.
Annals (117)
“To every man posterity gives his due honour”
Suum cuique decus posteritas rependit
Book IV, 35; Church-Brodribb translation
Annals (117)
“It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.”
Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris.
Origine: Agricola (98), Chapter 42; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The histories of Tiberius, Caius, Claudius, and Nero, while they were in power, were falsified through terror, and after their death were written under the irritation of a recent hatred. Hence my purpose is to relate a few facts about Augustus - more particularly his last acts, then the reign of Tiberius, and all which follows, without either bitterness or partiality, from any motives to which I am far removed.”
Tiberii Gaique et Claudii ac Neronis res florentibus ipsis ob metum falsae, postquam occiderant, recentibus odiis compositae sunt. inde consilium mihi pauca de Augusto et extrema tradere, mox Tiberii principatum et cetera, sine ira et studio, quorum causas procul habeo.
Book I, 1; Church-Brodribb translation
Annals (117)
“No doubt, there was peace after all this, but it was a peace stained with blood.”
Pacem sine dubio post haec, verum cruentam.
Book I, 10; Church-Brodribb translation
Annals (117)
“There will be vices as long as there are men.”
Vitia erunt donec homines
Book IV, 74; Church-Brodribb translation
Histories (100-110)
“He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did.”
Book II, 80
Histories (100-110)
“Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.”
Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publica rependitus.
Book XIV, 44
Annals (117)
“He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.”
Book VI, 39
Annals (117)