Wednesday, January 31, 2024

 

Seek and Ye Shall Find

Chaeremon, fragment 21 (tr. Thomas Sims):
There is nothing among mankind that
is not found out in time by those who search for it.

οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν τῶν ἐν ἀνθρώποις, ὅ τι
οὐκ ἐν χρόνῳ ζητοῦσι γ’ ἐξευρίσκεται.
Terence, Heauton Timorumenos 675 (tr. John Barsby):
There's nothing so hard to find that it can't be tracked down if you look for it.

nil tam difficilest quin quaerendo investigari possiet.


Looking further, I find the following collection of parallels in A.C. Pearson, ed., The Fragments of Sophocles, Vol. III (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1917), p. 56:



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