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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 3d

Carum esse civem, bene de re publica mereri, laudari, coli, diligi gloriosum est; metui vero et in odio esse invidiosum, detestabile, imbecillum, caducum.
(Cic. Phil. 1.33f)

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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 3d

To be a dear citizen, deserving well of the republic, praised, cherished, esteemed - that is glorious. In truth, to be feared and hated is odious, abominable, a position of weakness, tottering on the edge of ruin.

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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 5d

“Will you not stop quoting laws to us who wear swords?” he (i.e. Pompey) asked.

“Οὐ παύσεσθε,” εἶπεν, “ἡμῖν ὑπεζωσμένοις ξίφη νόμους ἀναγινώσκοντες;”
(Plut. Pomp. 10)

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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 6d

Each may say what he'd like; none is compelled to believe it.

Licet quod cuique libet loquatur, credere non est necesse.
(Cic. Phil. 1.33)

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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 8d

Aesop says: "Don't fight to the death while the carrion birds circle."

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The Lion and the Wild Boar (Perry 338; Chambry 203)

Read 'The Lion and the Wild Boar' by Aesop in Greek and English.

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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 12d

(Krumbacher, Epigramme der Kasia, ll. 74-76)

Logopoios @gnomai.com · 12d

Do not kick against the pricks with your naked feet:
since you won’t harm them in any way
by wounding yourself and causing your own grief.

St. Kassiani

Πρὸς κέντρα μὴ λάκτιζε γυμνοῖς ποσί σου·
ἐπεὶ τὰ κέντρα μηδαμῶς καταβλάψας
σαυτὸν τρώσειας καὶ πόνον ὑποστήσῃ.

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 12d

“No one loves their homeland because it is great. They love it because it is their own.”

Nemo enim patriam quia magna est amat, sed quia sua. #Seneca

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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 20d

et clamabitis in die illa a facie regis vestri quem elegistis vobis et non exaudiet vos Dominus in die illa.
(Vul. 1 Sam. 8.18)

Logopoios @gnomai.com · 20d

καὶ βοήσεσθε ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἐκ προσώπου βασιλέως ὑμῶν, οὗ ἐξελέξασθε ἑαυτοῖς, καὶ οὐκ ἐπακούσεται κύριος ὑμῶν ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις, ὅτι ὑμεῖς ἐξελέξασθε ἑαυτοῖς βασιλέα.
(LXX, 1 Sam. 8.18)

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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 20d

And you shall cry out on that day because of that person, your king, whom you chose for yourselves, and the Lord will not hear you in those days, since you chose for yourselves a king.

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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 21d

Look, we don't know what a cow would do with a quarter-share of a stag, but we do know: "Numquam est fidelis cum potente societas."
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The Cow, the She-Goat, the Sheep, and the Lion (Phaed. 1.5)

Read 'The Cow, the She-Goat, the Sheep, and the Lion' by Phaedrus in Latin and English.

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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 29d

“Virtue relies wholly on its use.”

“virtus in usu sui tota posita est”
(Cic. Rep. 1.2)

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Logopoios @gnomai.com · Sep 11

“Cicero, what is there for you in a stranger's generation? Our age is now finished.”

“Cicero, quid in alieno saeculo tibi? iam nostra peracta sunt.” (Sen. Suas. 6.1)

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Logopoios @gnomai.com · Sep 1

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Solidarity Forever (Cover) by Seth Staton Watkins

YouTube video by Seth Staton Watkins

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Logopoios @gnomai.com · Sep 1

Babrius is right: the union makes us strong!

Happy Labor Day!

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Divided and Devoured (Babrius 44)

Read 'Divided and Devoured' by Babrius in Greek and English.

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Logopoios @gnomai.com · Aug 27

For wretched infatuation, sire of calamity, plotting disgraces, emboldens mortals.

βροτοὺς θρασύνει γὰρ αἰσχρόμητις
τάλαινα παρακοπὰ πρωτοπήμων.
(Aesch. Ag. 222f)

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Logopoios @gnomai.com · Aug 24

In place of sleep, there drips before the heart the pain of misery recalled: even upon the unwilling comes a measured mind.

στάζει δ᾿ ἀνθ᾿ ὕπνου πρὸ καρδίας
μνησιπήμων πόνος· καὶ παρ᾿ ἅ-
κοντας ἦλθε σωφρονεῖν.
(Aesch. Ag. 179-181)

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Logopoios @gnomai.com · Aug 19

“Nothing is beyond hope, and one must hope for everything.”

“ἄελπτον οὐδέν, πάντα δ᾿ ἐλπίζειν χρεών.”

(Euripides “Hypsipyle”, fr. 761 = Stob. 4.46.16)
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · Aug 15

“For evil men, profit is greater than justice.”

“κακοῖς τὸ κέρδος τῆς δίκης ὑπέρτερον.”

(Euripides “Hypsipyle” fr. 760a = 758 Nauck/Stob. 3.10.26)
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · Aug 14

“ἐγὼ δὲ πολλάκις σοφωτέρους
πένητας ἄνδρας εἰσορῶ τῶν πλουσίων
καὶ <τοὺς> θεοῖσι μικρὰ θύοντας τέλη
τῶν βουθυτούντων ὄντας εὐσεβεστέρους.”

(Stob. 4.33.14)

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Logopoios @gnomai.com · Aug 14

“I often note that poor men are wiser than the rich and that those who make small sacrifices to the gods are more pious than those who sacrifice oxen.”

(Euripides "Danae" fr. 327, ll. 5-8)

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Logopoios @gnomai.com · Aug 11

οἱ μὴ κολάζοντες τοὺς κακοὺς βούλονται ἀδικεῖσθαι τοὺς ἀγαθούς.
(Attributed to Pythagoras; Stobaeus 4.5.112)

“Those who do not chastise evildoers will that good people suffer injustice.”
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · Aug 4

“Envy none of those who reap profit from injustice, but follow rather those who have suffered loss on the side of justice: for if the just gain no other advantage over the unjust, at the very least they rise above them in their earnest hopes.”
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · Aug 4

μηδένα ζήλου τῶν ἐξ ἀδικίας κερδαινόντων, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον ἀποδέχου τοὺς μετὰ δικαιοσύνης ζημιωθέντας· οἱ γὰρ δίκαιοι τῶν ἀδίκων εἰ μηδὲν ἄλλο πλεονεκτοῦσιν, ἀλλ᾿ οὖν ἐλπίσι γε σπουδαίαις ὑπερέχουσιν.
(Isoc. 1.39)

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