Friday, December 02, 2022

 

Friendship

Ennius, Tragedies, fragment 185 Jocelyn (tr. Andrew P. Peabody):
In unsure fortune a sure friend is seen.

amicus certus in re incerta cernitur.
Euripides, Hecuba 1226-1227 (tr. Edward P. Coleridge):
For it is in trouble's hour that the good most clearly
show their friendship; though prosperity by itself in every case finds friends.

ἐν τοῖς κακοῖς γὰρ ἁγαθοὶ σαφέστατοι
φίλοι· τὰ χρηστὰ δ' αὔθ' ἕκαστ' ἔχει φίλους.
Joshua T. Katz, "The Academic Memory Hole," National Review (November 30, 2022):
Exactly one of my 16 non-retired former colleagues in the Department of Classics at Princeton University has been in touch since I was fired last May, and almost none of them have spoken or written so much as a single word to me in two and a half years. When a friend made the mistake of simply mentioning my name to a Princeton classicist over a year ago, the reaction was shock: "We don't talk about him."



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