Friday, July 03, 2026
A Rhetorical Question
Mimnermus, fragment 1, line 1 (tr. Douglas E. Gerber):
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What life is there, what pleasure without golden Aphrodite?Horace, Epistles 1.6.65-66 (tr. Colin Macleod):
τίς δὲ βίος, τί δὲ τερπνὸν ἄτερ χρυσέης Ἀφροδίτης;
If, as Mimnermus holds, without love and play
there's no enjoyment, live for love and play.
si, Mimnermus uti censet, sine amore iocisque
nil est iucundum, vivas in amore iocisque.
