Tuesday, November 07, 2023

 

Golden Sayings

Lucretius 3.9-13 (you = Epicurus; tr. Martin Ferguson Smith):
You are our father and the discoverer of truth: you supply us with fatherly precepts; and from your pages, illustrious master, like the bees which in flowerful vales sip each bloom, we feed on each golden saying—golden and ever most worthy of eternal life.

tu pater es, rerum inventor, tu patria nobis
suppeditas praecepta, tuisque ex, inclute, chartis,        10
floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant,
omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta,
aurea, perpetua semper dignissima vita.

11 libant Marullus: limant codd.
On line 11 see Marcus Deufert, Kritischer Kommentar zu Lukrezens De rerum natura (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018), pp. 136-137.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 9:16 AM


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