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Avianus
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“Nam quae praeda, rogas, quae spes contingere posset, iurgia nutricis cum mihi verba darent?"Haec sibi dicta putet seque hac sciat arte notari, femineam quisquis credidit esse fidem.”
Avianus (400–401) said by 401 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Other translations:"What profit could I ever hope to gain when hearkening to the prattle of a nurse?" Thus often must a worried man complain, who, trusting woman, finds her art a curse. —Jack Lindsay, Song of a Falling …
“Non sine supremo magna labore peti.”
Avianus (400–401) said by 401 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Other translations:He that wylle haue and gete worship and glorye may not haue hit withoute grete laboure. —William Caxton, "The Tortose and the other Byrdes" (1484)
“Sic quicumque nova sublatus laude tumescit, dat merito poenas, dum meliora cupit.”
Avianus (400–401) said by 401 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Other translations:For men sayn comynly / who so mounteth hyher / than he shold / he falleth lower than he wold. —William Caxton, "The Tortose and the other Byrdes" (1484)
“Metiri se quemque decet propriisque iuvari laudibus, alterius nec bona ferre sibi.”
Avianus (400–401) said by 401 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cp. Harry Callahan in Magnum Force (1973): "A man's got to know his limitations.
“Tum sortem sapiens humanam risit Apollo, invidiaeque malum rettulit ipse Iovi, quae, dum proventis aliorum gaudet iniquis, laetior infelix et sua damna cupit.”
Avianus (400–401) said by 401 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Postquam nulla viam virtus dedit, admovet omnes indignata nova calliditate dolos.”
Avianus (400–401) said by 401 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Other translations:Exasperation sharpened her wits. —Frederic Taber Cooper, An Argosy of Fables (1921), p. 162In anger, she applied all her wiles, with strange cleverness. —Stephen T. Newmyer, "Tool Use in Animals", Sch…
“Viribus haec docuit quam sit prudentia maior.”
Avianus (400–401) said by 401 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Non quia magna tibi tribuerunt membra parentes viribus effectum constituere tuis.”
Avianus (400–401) said by 401 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sic qui cuncta deos uno male tempore poscunt, iustius his etiam vota diurna negant.”
Avianus (400–401) said by 401 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Quisquis torpentem passus transisse iuventam, nec timuit vitae providus ante mala, collectus senio, postquam gravis adfuit aetas, heu frustra alterius saepe rogabit opem.”
Avianus (400–401) said by 401 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Proderit ergo graves quamvis perferre labores, otia quam tenerum mox peritura pati.”
Avianus (400–401) said by 401 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Est hominum sors ista, magis felicibus ut mors sit cita, cum miseris vita diurna negat.”
Avianus (400–401) said by 401 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vade" ait "et pictae nimium confide iuventae, dum mihi consilium pulchrius esse queat, miremurque magis quos munera mentis adornant, quam qui corporeis enituere bonis.”
Avianus (400–401) said by 401 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Avianus can scarcely be called a poet. His tasteless, strained, imprecise Latin, with its constant inappropriate Virgilian reminiscences, might have been written by a nineteenth-century public schoolboy.”
Avianus (400–401) said by 401 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robert Browning, "The Fables of Avianus [Review of Avianus, Fabulae, by A. Guaglianone"], The Classical Review, vol. 10, no. 1 (1960), p. 42