Monday, September 25, 2017
On the Debit Side
Greek Anthology 10.105 (Simonides; tr. W.R. Paton):
Horace, Ars Poetica 63 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough):
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A certain Theodorus rejoices because I am dead. Another shall rejoice at his death. We are all owed to death.Some put a comma after τις, not after Θεόδωρος, making Theodorus the speaker (i.e., A certain man rejoices because I, Theodorus, am dead...).
χαίρει τις Θεόδωρος, ἐπεὶ θάνον· ἄλλος ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ
χαιρήσει. θανάτῳ πάντες ὀφειλόμεθα.
Horace, Ars Poetica 63 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough):
We are doomed to death—we and all things ours.
debemur morti nos nostraque.
debemus cod. Bernensis 363
