Friday, December 02, 2022
Friendship
Ennius, Tragedies, fragment 185 Jocelyn (tr. Andrew P. Peabody):
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In unsure fortune a sure friend is seen.Euripides, Hecuba 1226-1227 (tr. Edward P. Coleridge):
amicus certus in re incerta cernitur.
For it is in trouble's hour that the good most clearlyJoshua T. Katz, "The Academic Memory Hole," National Review (November 30, 2022):
show their friendship; though prosperity by itself in every case finds friends.
ἐν τοῖς κακοῖς γὰρ ἁγαθοὶ σαφέστατοι
φίλοι· τὰ χρηστὰ δ' αὔθ' ἕκαστ' ἔχει φίλους.
Exactly one of my 16 non-retired former colleagues in the Department of Classics at Princeton University has been in touch since I was fired last May, and almost none of them have spoken or written so much as a single word to me in two and a half years. When a friend made the mistake of simply mentioning my name to a Princeton classicist over a year ago, the reaction was shock: "We don't talk about him."
