Sunday, October 11, 2015
Happy the Man
Seneca, Agamemnon 103-104 (tr. John G. Fitch):
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Lucky the man content with the lotR.J. Tarrant ad loc.:
of average folk...
felix mediae quisquis turbae
sorte quietus...
For quietus cf., e.g., Lucr. 5.1129f. ut satius multo iam sit parere quietum | quam regere imperio res uelle et regna tenere. For media turba compare Thy. 533f. liceat in media mihi | latere turba, also medium uulgus in Ov. Met. 7.432, Sen. Pha. 212, media plebs Ov. Met. 5.207. The thought is paralleled in Anth. Lat. 433.7 Riese pars ego sim plebis, 407.9, Tranq. 10.6.Related post: Recipes for Happiness.
