Sunday, May 09, 2021
Tit for Tat
Jerome, Against Rufinus 3.42 (tr. John N. Hritzu):
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You shall hear nothing more on this subject except a proverb borrowed from the streets: 'When you say what you want to say, you shall hear what you do not want to hear.'Cf. Terence, Andria 920 (tr. John Sargeaunt):
nihilque super hoc amplius audies nisi illud de trivio: cum dixeris quod vis, audies quod non vis.
If he persists in saying just what he likes, he shall hear what he won't like.For more parallels see Erasmus, Adages I i 1 to I v 100, translated by Margaret Mann Phillips, annotated by R.A.B. Mynors (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988), pp. 74-76 (I i 27: Qui quae vult dicit, quae non vult audiet).
si mihi perget quae volt dicere, ea quae non volt audiet.
