Wednesday, January 24, 2018
The Rich and the Poor
Anonymous, On Riches 12.2 (my translation):
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Get rid of the rich man and you won't find a poor man. Let no one possess more than is necessary, and everyone will have as much as is necessary. For the few rich men are the cause of the many poor men.The Latin text of the Pelagian treatise De Divitiis can be found in C.P. Caspari, ed., Briefe, Abhandlungen und Predigten aus den zwei letzten Jahrhunderten des kirchlichen Alterthums und dem Anfang des Mittelalters (Christiana: Mallingsche Buchdruckerei, 1890), pp. 25-67 (this passage on p. 48). The following are unavailable to me:
Tolle divitem et pauperem non invenies. Nemo plus, quam necessarium est, possideat, et, quantum necessarium est, omnes habebunt. Pauci enim divites pauperum sunt causa multorum.
- B.R. Rees, Pelagius: Life and Letters (Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1998), pp. 171–211 (English translation of the treatise)
- Andreas Kessler, Reichtumskritik und Pelagianismus. Die pelagianische Diatribe de Divitiis: Situierung, Lesetext, Übersetzung, Kommentar (Freiburg: Universitätsverlag, 1999)
- Santo Toscano, Tolle Divitem: Etica, società e potere nel De divitiis (Catania: Edizioni del Prisma, 2006)
