Tuesday, November 08, 2016
Dilemma
Plautus, Casina 971 (tr. David Christenson):
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Wolves on the left, dogs on the right!Horace, Satires 2.2.64 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough):
hac lupi, hac canes.
On the one side, as the saying is, a wolf attacks, on the other a dog.See Renzo Tosi, Dictionnaire des sentences latines et grecques, tr. Rebecca Lenoir (Grenoble: Jérôme Millon, 2010), #669, p. 522.
hac urget lupus, hac canis, aiunt.