#NECESSE EST MULTOS TIMEAT FULL#
O Fortune, who know no mean in good and bad alike, if it was your pleasure to break me at the pinnacle, in the full bloom of the fame I’d won by my glory in letters, 20 why did you not make me bow down, to destroy my pliant self, when I still had the vigor of limbs in their prime, when I could put on a proper show for the people and the great man? Now you cast me down? Why? What do I bring to the stage? The beauty and dignity of a well-formed body, 25 the mind’s wit or a sweet-sounding voice? As ivy destroys the vital force of trees by creeping ’round them, so long passage of years is killing me. Laberio visse abbastanza per vedere confermata, con luccisione di Cesare da parte dei congiurati ( Idi di marzo 44 a.C. Surely today I’ve lived one day longer than I ought. Necesse est multos timeat quem multi timent' (Ormai, o quiriti, perdiamo la libertà Però chi da molti è temuto deve per forza temere molti ). Gratwick)Ĭondo et compono quae mox depromere possim.Against my name-left my household gods a Roman Knight 15 to return to them-a mime. Because of this Caesar transferred his support to Publilius. ‘he whom many fear must inevitably fear many.’Īt the sound of these words everyone in the audience turned their eyes and faces on Caesar alone, observing that his immoderate behaviour had received a fatal blow with this caustic gibe. ‘furthermore, Roman citizens, we are losing our liberty.’ Moreover, during the performance of the play, he was continuously taking his revenge, however he could dressed as a Syrian, who pretended that he had been flogged, and looked like a runaway slave, he would cry out: So Old Age throttles me with her embrace of years Īnd like the tomb, I retain nothing but my name.’ My manliness of spirit, or the sound of my melodious voice?Īs creeping ivy throttles the strength of trees, My grace of form, or my impressive presence? (Laberius) Latin Quotes (Latin to English). Is it now that you cast me down? For what? What have I to offer the theatre? Necesse est multos timeat quem multi timent He must fear many, whom many fear.He must fear many, whom many fear. To please the Roman People and would have been able to please such a man? > messis quidem multa, operarii autem pauci - niwo wprawdzie obfite, ale robotnikw mao. > mens sana in corpore sano - w zdrowym ciele zdrowy duch. When I had the power with limbs budding at the tip melior est canis vivus leone mortuo - lepszy jest ywy pies od martwego lwa. Why did you not bend me to pick when still resilient, My reputation’s tip when it blossomed with literary praise, I have lived one more than I ever should have lived.įortune, immoderate in good and ill alike, Having set forth from my hearth a Roman knight, I, twice thirty years spent without reproach, No intimidation, no violence, no pressureĬould ever shift me from my station in my prime īehold in age how easily an outstanding man’s wordsĮxpressed in gentle spirit, words quietly spoken,Ĭonciliatory nice-sounding words, have toppled me from my place!įor indeed who would be able to tolerate me,Ī human, refusing him to whom the very gods have not been able to refuse anything? To what corner have you forced me almost at the end of my faculties!
Many have wished, but few have been able to escape, But a potentate’s invitation, or even his mere request, in effect amounts to compulsion and so it is that Laberius, in the prologue to his play, testifies to the fact that he has been compelled by Caesar with the following lines: Laberius was a harsh and outspoken Roman knight, whom Caesar for a fee of 500,000 sesterces invited to appear on the stage and to act in person in the mimes which he was always writing. ob haec in Publilium vertit favorem.(Macrobius, Sat. 2.7.2-5) Quo dicto universitas populi ad solum Caesarem oculos et ora convertit, notantes impotentiam eius hac dicacitate lapidatam. ‘necesse est multos timeat quem multi timent.’ In ipsa quoque actione subinde se, qua poterat, ulciscebatur, inducto habitu Syri, qui velut flagris caesus praeripientique se similis exclamabat: Sepulchri similis nil nisi nomen retineo.’ Nuncin me deicis? quo? quid ad scaenam affero? Non flexibilem me concurvasti ut carperes? Satisfacere populo et tali cum poteram viro Nullus timor, vis nulla, nulla auctoritasįortuna, immoderata in bono aeque atque in malo, Voluerunt multi effugere, pauci potuerunt, Richmondaudiosociety Home Search Home Search ³aciñskie cytaty - teksty, ¶mieszne teksty, aforyzmy (2022.
‘Necessitas, cuius cursus transversi impetum Cesarz Tyberiusz.> malum est in necessitate vivere, sed in necessitate vivere necessitas nulla est - ¼le jest ¿yæ w okowach konieczno¶ci.
sed potestas non solum si invitet sed et si supplicet cogit, unde se et Laberius a Caesare coactum in prologo testatur his versibus: Laberium asperae libertatis equitem Romanum Caesar quingentis milibus invitavit ut prodiret in scaenam et ipse ageret mimos quos scriptitabat.
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