Wednesday, April 12, 2023
An Old Tree
Philemon, fragment 147 Kock = Comparatio Menandri et Philistionis II 47-48, in Siegfried Jaekel, ed., Menandri Sententiae. Comparatio Menandri et Philistionis (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1964), p. 104 (my translation):
Newer› ‹Older
Don't rebuke an old man when he makes a mistake;
it's difficult to transplant an old tree.
μὴ νουθέτει γέρονθ' ἁμαρτάνοντά τι·
δένδρον παλαιὸν μεταφυτεύειν δύσκολον.
