Wednesday, April 12, 2023

 

An Old Tree

Philemon, fragment 147 Kock = Comparatio Menandri et Philistionis II 47-48, in Siegfried Jaekel, ed., Menandri Sententiae. Comparatio Menandri et Philistionis (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1964), p. 104 (my translation):
Don't rebuke an old man when he makes a mistake;
it's difficult to transplant an old tree.

μὴ νουθέτει γέρονθ' ἁμαρτάνοντά τι·
δένδρον παλαιὸν μεταφυτεύειν δύσκολον.



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