Friday, October 29, 2021
Love and Fear
Ovid, Heroides 1.11-12 (tr. Grant Showerman):
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When have I not feared dangers graver than the real?Alessandro Barchiesi on line 12:
Love is a thing ever filled with anxious fear.
quando ego non timui graviora pericula veris?
res est solliciti plena timoris amor.
Un concetto volutamente semplice, di buon senso quotidiano, cfr. Cic. Att. 1, 2, 24 non ignoro quam sit amor omnis sollicitus atque anxius. Anche res est ha un sapore idiomatico e colloquiale: molti esempi in Ovidio (cfr. Palmer ad l.; H.-Sz. 444 sg.; A. Traina, Lo stile «drammatico» del filosofo Seneca, Bologna 19874, 86 sg. n. 1). V. anche Ov. met. 7, 719 cuncta timemus amantes!; her. 6, 21 credula res amor est; Pont. 2, 7, 37 res timida est omnis miser; her. 18, 109 omnia sed vereor; quis enim securus amavit?Id., 1.71-72:
But now, what I am to fear I know not—yet none the less I fear all things, distraught,
and wide is the field lies open for my cares.
quid timeam, ignoro—timeo tamen omnia demens,
et patet in curas area lata meas.