Thursday, April 03, 2014
Fortune's Vomit
Arsenius, Violetum, ed. Christian Walz (Stuttgart: Loeflund, 1832), p. 209 (ascribed to Diogenes; my translation):
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He said that wealth was Fortune's vomit.Stobaeus 4.31.89, in Ioannis Stobaei Anthologium, Vol. V: Anthologii Libri Quarti Partem Alteram...Continens, ed. Otto Hense (Berlin: Weidmann, 1912), p. 766 (ascribed to Monimus; my translation):
Ὁ αὐτὸς εἶπε τὸν πλοῦτον τύχης ἔμετον εἶναι.
He said that wealth was Fortune's vomit.Gnomologium Vaticanum e Codice Vaticano Graeco 743, ed. Leo Sternbach (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1963), p. 86, no. 216 (ascribed to Demosthenes; my translation):
Τὸν πλοῦτον εἶπε Τύχης ἔμετον εἶναι.
He said that the wealthy and uneducated man was Fortune's vomit.I owe the references to Diogenes the Cynic, Sayings and Anecdotes with Other Popular Moralists. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Robin Hard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). Thanks to Ian Jackson for checking the quotation from the Gnomologium Vaticanum.
Ὁ αὐτὸς τὸν πλούσιον καὶ ἀπαίδευτον ἔφη Τύχης ἔμετον εἶναι.
