„Einen sicheren Freund erkennt man in einer unsicheren Lage.“
zitiert bei Cicero, De amicitia 64
Original lat.: "Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur."
Zitate von Quintus Ennius
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Quintus Ennius
Geburtstag: 16. Juli 239 v.Chr
Todesdatum: 8. Oktober 169 v.Chr
Quintus Ennius war ein Schriftsteller der Römischen Republik, der oft als Vater der römischen Poesie bezeichnet wird. Obwohl nur Fragmente seiner Werke überlebten, ist sein Einfluss – vor allem als Vermittler griechischer Literatur – auf die lateinische Literatur erheblich: er bevorzugte – im Gegensatz zu Naevius’ Saturniern – den daktylischen Hexameter, der durch ihn in der lateinischen Epik üblich wurde. Wikipedia
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Zitate Quintus Ennius
„Ich sage, Ajakide, du kannst die Römer besiegen.“
Annalium VI, 174; Worte der delphischen Phythia zu Pyrrhus vor dem Pyrrhischen Krieg 280-275 v. Chr.
„Wie ähnlich ist uns der Affe, dieses äußerst scheußliche Tier!“
zitiert bei Cicero, De Natura Deorum I, 97
Original lat.: "Simia quam similis turpissuma bestia nobis."; falsch auch: "...turpissima..."
„Zuviel des Guten hat derjenige, der nichts Schlechtes hat.“
zitiert bei Cicero, De finibus 2, 41
Original lat.: "Nimium boni est, cui nihil est mali."
„Ich sage, Ajakide, du kannst die Römer besiegen.“
Alternativ: "Ich sage, Ajakide, die Römer können dich besiegen.; beide Übersetzungen sind korrekt, obwohl sie das Gegenteil besagen. Annalium VI, 174; Worte der delphischen Phythia zu Pyrrhus vor dem Pyrrhischen Krieg 280-275 v. Chr. Original lat.: Aio te Aeacida Romanos vincere posse.
„The idle mind knows not what it wants.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Aulus Gellius in Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights), Book XIX, Chapter X
Iphigenia
Original: (la) Otioso in otio animus nescit quid velit.
„There is no fellowship inviolate,
no faith is kept, when kingship is concerned.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Cicero in De Officiis Book I, Chapter VIII - translation by Walter Miller
Variant translation: To kingship belongs neither sacred fellowship nor faith.
Original: (la) Nulla sancta societas
Nec fides regni est.
„A sure friend is known in unsure times.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Cicero in De Amicitia, Chapter XVII
Original: (la) Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur.
„He who has conquered is not conqueror
Unless the conquered one confesses it.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Marcus Servius Honoratus in In Vergilii carmina comentarii (Commentaries on the poems of Virgil), Book XI https://web.archive.org/web/20141219124307/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0053%3Abook%3D11%3Acommline%3D306
Original: (la) Qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatetur.
„And earth who herself bestowed the body takes it back and wastes not a whit.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Varro in De Lingua Latina, Book V
Original: (la) Terram corpus quae dederit, ipsam
capere neque dispendi facere hilum.
„Neither you nor any man alive shall do this unpunished: no, you shall give recompense to me with your life-blood.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Macrobius in Saturnalia; Book VI, Chapter I
Compare: Tu tamen interea calido mihi sanguine poenas persolves amborum, Virgil, Aeneid, Book IX, line 422
Original: (la) Nec pol homo quisquam faciet inpune animatus
hoc nec tu; nam mi calido dabis sanguine poenas.
„Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping. Why? I fly, living, through the mouths of men.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Cicero in Tusculanae Disputationes, Book I, chapter XV, section 34
Original: (la) Nemo me lacrumis decoret neque funera fletu
faxit. Cur? volito vivos per ora virum.
„As a strong horse that has often won on the last lap at Olympia is now resting, tired out by old age.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Cicero in De Senectute, Chapter V (tr. K. Volk)
Original: (la) Sicut fortis equus, spatio qui saepe supremo
Vicit Olympia, nunc senio confectus quiescit.
„Who kindly sets a wand'rer on his way
Does e'en as if he lit another's lamp by his:
No less shines his, when he his friend's hath lit.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Cicero in De Officiis, Book I, Chapter XVI - translation by Walter Miller
Original: (la) Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam,
Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendat facit;
Nihilo minus ipsi lucet, cum illi accenderit.
„where the Gauls stealthily, at the time of night when sleep falls on men, attacked the high citadel and of a sudden stained with blood walls and watchers.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Macrobius in Saturnalia, Book I, Chapter IV (tr. J. Elliott)
Original: (la) Qua Galli furtim noctu summa arcis adorti
moenia concubia vigilesque repente cruentant.
„Your minds that once did stand erect and strong,
What madness swerves them from their wonted course?“
— Ennius
As quoted by Cicero in De Senectute, Chapter VI (Loeb translation)
Original: (la) Quo vobis mentes, rectae quae stare solebant
Antehac, dementis sese flexere viai?
„No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Cicero in De Divinatione, Book II, Chapter XIII
Iphigenia
Original: (la) Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat, caeli scrutantur plagas.
„No sooner said than done—so acts your man of worth.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Priscianus in Ars Prisciani, Book VI
Original: (la) Dictum factumque facit frux.
„The Roman state survives by its ancient customs and its manhood.“
— Ennius
Annals, Book V
Original: (la) Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque.
„Whom none could overcome with iron or gold.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Cicero in De Re Publica, Book III, Chapter IV
Iron is a metonym for sword/warfare, and gold for money/bribery.
Original: (la) Quem nemo ferro potuit superare nec auro.
