„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.
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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.
Zitate Quintus Ennius
„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."
„Einen sicheren Freund erkennt man in einer unsicheren Lage.“
zitiert bei Cicero, De amicitia 64
Original lat.: "Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur."
„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.
„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..."
„The Roman state survives by its ancient customs and its manhood.“
— Ennius
Annals, Book V
Original: (la) Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque.
„The mind wanders unsure, except in that life is lived.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Aulus Gellius in Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights), Book XIX, Chapter X
Iphigenia
Original: (la) Incerte errat animus; praeterpropter vitam vivitur.
„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.
„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.
„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.
„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.
„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.
„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.
„Not chaffering war but waging war, not with gold but with iron—thus let us of both sides make trial for our lives“
— Ennius
As quoted by Cicero in De Officiis, Book I, Chapter XII
Original: (la) Nec cauponantes bellum sed belligerantes;
Ferro non auro vitam cernamus utrique.
„Fortune is given to brave men.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Macrobius in Saturnalia, Book VI, Chapter I
Original: (la) Fortibus est fortuna viris data.
„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.
„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.
„Whom they fear, they hate. And whom one hates, one hopes to see him dead.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Cicero in De Officiis, Book II, Chapter 23
Original: (la) Quem metuunt oderunt; quem quisque odit, perisse expetit.
„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.
