So may all others perish who commit such crimes!Scipio Africanus quoted this line on hearing of the death of Tiberius Gracchus. See Plutarch, Life of Tiberius Gracchus 21.4, and Diodorus 35.7.3.
ὡς ἀπόλοιτο καὶ ἄλλος, ὅτις τοιαῦτά γε ῥέζοι.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Monday, October 08, 2018
Crime and Punishment
Homer, Odyssey 1.47 (Athena speaking about Aegisthus' death at the hands of Orestes; tr. Peter Green):