Friday, August 20, 2021

 

There's No Pleasing Everyone

Solon, fragment 7 West = 9 Gentili-Prato (tr. Douglas E. Gerber):
In matters of great importance it is hard to please everyone.

ἔργμασιν ἐν μεγάλοις πᾶσιν ἁδεῖν χαλεπόν.

ἔργμασιν Heinemann: ἔργμασι codd.
Renzo Tosi, Dictionnaire des sentences latines et grecques, tr. Rebecca Lenoir (Grenoble: Jérôme Millon, 2010), p. 147:
Related post: Even Jupiter Does Not Please Everybody.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 7:37 AM


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