Zitate von Claudian
Claudian
Geburtstag: 370
Todesdatum: 404
Claudius Claudianus war ein namhafter lateinischer Dichter der Spätantike.
Zitate Claudian
„Auf Tugend, nicht auf Blut muss man sich stützen.“
— Claudian
De quarto consulatu honorii Augusti, 220
„Keine Gewalteinwirkung schwächt grausamen Geiz.“
— Claudian
In Eutropium I, 192f
„Die Dankbarkeit gegenüber den Vätern geht auf das Kind über.“
— Claudian
De consulatu Stilichonis II, 51
„Du wirst mit Recht alles in deiner Macht haben, wenn du König über dich selbst sein kannst.“
— Claudian
De quarto consulatu honorii Augusti, 261f
„Immer arm ist, wer begehrt.“
— Claudian
In Rufinum I, 205
„Nur Milde macht uns den Göttern ebenbürtig.“
— Claudian
De quarto consulatu honorii Augusti, 277
„Presence will minish awe.“
— Claudian
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/De_Bello_Gildonico*.html#385 De Bello Gildonico, line 387].
Variant translation: Presence diminishes fame.
„If thou make any law or establish any custom for the general good, be the first to submit thyself thereto; then does a people show more regard for justice nor refuse submission when it has seen their author obedient to his own laws. The world shapes itself after its ruler's pattern, nor can edicts sway men's minds so much as their monarch's life; the unstable crowd ever changes along with the prince.“
— Claudian
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/De_IV_Consulatu_Honorii*.html#296 Panegyricus de Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti, lines 296-301].
„Death renders all equal.“
— Claudian
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/De_Raptu_Proserpinae/2*.html#302 De Raptu Proserpinae Bk. II, line 302].
Variant translation: Death makes all things equal.
„Biting poverty and cruel Cupid are my foes. Hunger I can endure; love I cannot.“
— Claudian
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/Carmina_Minora*/omnia.html#XV Epigram XV]
„Quiet authority accomplishes what violence cannot, and that mandate compels more which comes from a commanding calm.“
— Claudian
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/Manlio_Theodoro*.html#239 Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli, lines 239-241].
„Virtue hidden hath no value.“
— Claudian
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/De_IV_Consulatu_Honorii*.html#222 Panegyricus de Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti, line 222].
„But he whom reason, not anger, animates is a peer of the gods.“
— Claudian
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/Manlio_Theodoro*.html#227 Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli, lines 227-228].
„No longer can I complain that the unrighteous man reaches the highest pinnacle of success. He is raised aloft that he may be hurled down in more headlong ruin.“
— Claudian
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/In_Rufinum/1*.html#21 In Rufinum, Bk. I, lines 21-23].
