Saturday, September 14, 2013
Leisure versus Toil
Ovid, Epistulae Ex Ponto 1.4.21-22 (tr. Arthur Leslie Wheeler):
Cf. Ovid, Epistulae Ex Ponto 1.5.5-6 (tr. Wheeler):
Luke Fildes (1844-1927), Hours of Idleness
Related post: O Dulce Otium!
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Leisure nourishes the body, the mind too feeds upon it, but excessive toil impairs both.See Renzo Tosi, Dictionnaire des sentences latines et grecques, tr. Rebecca Lenoir (Grenoble: Jérôme Millon, 2010), #1327, pp. 986-987.
otia corpus alunt, animus quoque pascitur illis:
inmodicus contra carpit utrumque labor.
Cf. Ovid, Epistulae Ex Ponto 1.5.5-6 (tr. Wheeler):
You see how inactivity spoils an idle body, how water acquires a taint unless it is in motion.
cernis ut ignavum corrumpant otia corpus,
ut capiant vitium, ni moveantur, aquae.
Luke Fildes (1844-1927), Hours of Idleness
Related post: O Dulce Otium!
