Wednesday, November 13, 2024

 

Big Brother

Plautus, Mostellaria 941-942 (tr. Wolfgang de Melo):
Unless perhaps you've been made a new magistrate, since you're taking care of others' business, asking about it, spying on it, and listening to it.

                      nisi forte factu's praefectus novos,
qui res alienas procures, quaeras, videas, audias.
A reference to the γυναικονόμοι (gynaeconomi) according to William Scott Ferguson, Hellenistic Athens: An Historical Essay (London: Macmillan and Company, Ltd., 1911), p. 45, n. 2.

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