Sunday, February 17, 2013
Semper Aliquid Novi
Euripides, fragment 945 (tr. Christopher Collard and Martin Cropp):
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A day always teaches something new.Posidippus, fragment 20, in Poetae Comici Graeci, edd. R. Kassel and C. Austin, Vol. 7 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1989), p. 571 (tr. J.M. Edmonds):
ἀεί τι καινὸν ἡμέρα παιδεύεται.
Grief's hard to escape; each night's no sooner gonePublilius Syrus 146 (tr. J. Wight Duff and Arnold M. Duff):
Than there comes something new to ponder on.
ἔργον γε λύπην ἐκφυγεῖν, ἡ δ' ἡμέρα
ἀεί τι καινὸν εἰς τὸ φροντίζειν φέρει.
Next day is pupil of the day before.See Renzo Tosi, Dictionnaire des sentences latines et grecques, tr. Rebecca Lenoir (Grenoble: Jérôme Millon, 2010), #2027 (p. 1471), and Maria Spyridonidou-Skarsouli, Der Erste Teil der fünften Athos-Sammlung griechischer Sprichwörter: Kritische Ausgabe mit Kommentar (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1995 = Texte und Kommentare, 18), p. 209.
Discipulus est prioris posterior dies.
