Tuesday, September 28, 2021
A Parallel?
Philodemus, On Anger, column 20, lines 21-24 (tr. David Armstrong and Michael McOsker; the Greek simplified by the removal of brackets):
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...and make up things that have not happened and magnify things not worthy of any mention...This seems similar to Seneca, On Anger 3.12.1 (tr. John W. Basore):
...καὶ πλάττειν τὰ μὴ γεγονότα καὶ τὰ μηδενὸς ἄξια λόγου μεγαλύνειν...
A great many manufacture grievances either by suspecting the untrue or by exaggerating the trivial.The similarity isn't mentioned in Philodemus, On Anger. Introduction, Greek Text, and Translation by David Armstrong and Michael McOsker (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2020), p. 227.
magna pars querellas manu fecit aut falsa suspicando aut levia adgravando.
