“Tanti uomini, tanti modi di pensare.”
454
Quot homines tot sententiae.
Phormio
Lavori
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“I litigi tra gli innamorati completano l'amore.”
Amantium irae amoris integratio est.
555
Amantium irae amoris integratio est.
Andria (La ragazza di Andros)
“La vecchiaia stessa è una malattia.”
575
Senectus ipsa est morbus.
Phormio
“Non c'è niente di così facile che non diventi difficile quando si fa controvoglia.”
Publio Terenzio Afro Heautontimorumenos
818
Heautontimoroumenos (Il punitore di se stesso)
Originale: (la) Nullast tam facilis res quin difficilis siet, quam invitus facias.
Publio Terenzio Afro Frasi e Citazioni
“Sono un uomo e nulla di ciò che è umano mi è estraneo.”
Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.
I, 1, 77
“L'ossequio ti genera amici, la verità odio.”
Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit.
68
Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit.
Andria (La ragazza di Andros)
“Quando la mente è presa dal dubbio viene spinta qua e là da un impulso leggerissimo.”
I, 5
Andria (La ragazza di Andros)
“La fortuna favorisce i forti.”
I, 4, 203
Fortes fortuna adjuvat.
Phormio
“Nulla è tanto difficile che, a forza di cercare, non se ne possa venire a capo.”
Publio Terenzio Afro Heautontimorumenos
675
Nil tam difficile est quin quaerendo investigari possiet.
Heautontimoroumenos (Il punitore di se stesso)
Simo. Vos istaec intro auferte: abite. – Sosia, ades dum: paucis te volo.
Sosia. dictum puta: nempe ut curentur recte haec?
Simo. immo aliud.
Sosia. quid est quod tibi mea ars efficere hoc possit amplius?
Simo. nil istac opus est arte ad hanc rem quam paro, sed eis quas semper in te intellexi sitas, fide et taciturnitate.
Sosia. exspecto quid velis.
Andria (La ragazza di Andros), Incipit, Massimo Rossi
Origine: dum: è qui attestato l'antico significato avverbiale di "per un momento". Probabilmente la sua radice è quella del verbo durare.
Publio Terenzio Afro: Frasi in inglese
“Fortune favours the brave.”
Fortis fortuna adiuvat.
Terence Phormio
Variant translation: Fortune assists the brave.
Act I, scene 4, line 25 (203).
Cf. Virgil, Aeneid, Book X, line 284: "Audentes fortuna iuvat."
Phormio
“Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.”
Nil tam difficile est quin quaerendo investigari possit.
Terence Heautontimorumenos
Act IV, scene 2, line 8 (675).
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)
“Really, you have seen the old age of an eagle, as the saying is.”
Terence Heautontimorumenos
Act III, scene 2, line 9 (520).
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)
“Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.”
Amantium irae amoris integratio est.
Terence Andria
Act III, scene 3, line 23 (555).
Variant translation: Lovers’ rows make love whole again.
Andria (The Lady of Andros)
“What comes from this quarter, set it down as so much gain.”
Terence Adelphoe
Act V, scene 3, line 30 (816).
Adelphoe (The Brothers)
“Extreme law is often extreme injustice.”
Ius summum saepe summa est malitia.
Terence Heautontimorumenos
Act IV, scene 5, line 48 (796).
Variant translations:
The highest law is often the greatest wrong.
Extreme justice is often extreme malice.
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)
“Without Ceres (bread) and Bacchus (wine) Venus (love) freezes.”
Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus
Terence Eunuchus
Act IV, scene 1, 1, line 5.
Eunuchus
“According as the man is, so must you humor him.”
Terence Adelphoe
Act III, scene 3, line 77 (431).
Adelphoe (The Brothers)
Terence Eunuchus
Act III, scene 1, 21, line 411.
Eunuchus
“Obsequiousness begets friends, truth hatred.”
Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit.
Terence Andria
Act I, scene i, Line 41
Andria (The Lady of Andros)
“Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?”
Terence Andria
The Prologue, line 17.
Andria (The Lady of Andros)
“In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.”
Nullumst iam dictum quod non dictum sit prius.
Terence Eunuchus
Nullum est iam dictum quod non dictum sit prius.
Prologue, Line 41.
Variant translation: Nothing has yet been said that’s not been said before.
Eunuchus
“As the saying is, I have got a wolf by the ears.”
Terence Phormio
Act III, scene 2, line 21 (506).
Phormio
Terence Eunuchus
Act IV, scene 7, 42, line 812.
Eunuchus
“It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.”
Terence Eunuchus
Act IV, scene 7, 19, line 789.
Eunuchus
“It is up with you; all is over; you are ruined.”
Terence Eunuchus
Act I, scene 1, 9, line 54.
Eunuchus
“Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.”
Periclum ex aliis facito tibi quod ex usu siet.
Terence Heautontimorumenos
Act I, scene 2, line 37 (211).
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)
“Of surpassing beauty and in the bloom of youth.”
Terence Andria
Act I, scene 1, line 45 (72).
Andria (The Lady of Andros)
“If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.”
Terence Eunuchus
Act I, scene 2, 96, line 176.
Eunuchus
Originale: (la) si istuc crederem/sincere dici, quidvis possem perpeti.
“I am human, I consider nothing human alien to me.”
Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.
Terence Heautontimorumenos
Act I, scene 1, line 25 (77).
Variant translations:
I am a human and consider nothing human alien to me.
I am human, I consider nothing human to be alien to me.
I am human, therefore nothing relating to humanity is outside of my concern.
I am a man; I consider nothing human alien to me.
I am a man, I regard nothing that is human alien to me.
I am a man, I count nothing human foreign to me.
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)
“Take care and say this with presence of mind.”
Terence Eunuchus
Act IV, scene 6, 31, line 769.
Eunuchus
Terence Eunuchus
Act III, scene 5, 2, line 550.
Eunuchus
“Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.”
Terence Heautontimorumenos
Act IV, scene 1, line 53 (666).
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)
“How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!”
Terence Heautontimorumenos
Act IV, scene 7, line 11 (839).
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)
“There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.”
Terence Heautontimorumenos
Act IV, scene 6, line 1 (805).
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)
Terence Eunuchus
Act II, scene 2, 12, line 243.
Eunuchus
“This and a great deal more like it I have had to put up with.”
Terence Eunuchus
Act IV, scene 6, 8, line 746.
Eunuchus
“It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.”
Terence Adelphoe
Act V, scene 8, line 30 (953).
Adelphoe (The Brothers)
“While there's life, there's hope.”
Modo liceat vivere, est spes.
Terence Heautontimorumenos
Origine: Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor), Line 981.
