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Claudius Claudianus bol rímsky básnik pôsobiaci na dvore cisára Honoria a neskôr pod ochranou jeho barbarského dvorského ministra Stilichona. Na rozdiel od väčšiny básnikov svojej doby, ktorý patrili k rímskej senátorskej aristokracii a zaoberali sa literárnou tvorbou ako voľnočasovou kratochvíľou, bol Claudianus, pôvodom Grék z Alexandrie, profesionálny básnik, ktorý sa živil svojim literárnym nadaním. Jeho poézia sa výrazne líši od nezáväznej, vysoko sofistikovanej ale k dobovým problémom hluchej tvorby rímskej šľachty. Claudianov talent mu získal uznanie a podporu mocných osobností doby, ktorý si udržal až do konca svojho života, a bol svojimi súčasníkmi považovaný za jedného z najväčších literárnych géniov svojej doby. Wikipedia
Citáty Claudius Claudianus
„Virtue hidden hath no value.“
— Claudian
Panegyricus de Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti, line 222 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/De_IV_Consulatu_Honorii*.html#222.
„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
In commune iubes si quid censesque tenendum,
primus iussa subi: tunc observantior aequi
fit populus nec ferre negat, cum viderit ipsum
auctorem parere sibi. componitur orbis
regis ad exemplum, nec sic inflectere sensus
humanos edicta valent quam vita regentis.
Panegyricus de Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti, lines 296-301 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/De_IV_Consulatu_Honorii*.html#296.
Originál: (la) In commune iubes si quid censesque tenendum, <br/>primus iussa subi: tunc observantior aequi <br/>fit populus nec ferre negat, cum viderit ipsum <br/>auctorem parere sibi. componitur orbis <br/>regis ad exemplum, nec sic inflectere sensus <br/>humanos edicta valent quam vita regentis.
„Biting poverty and cruel Cupid are my foes. Hunger I can endure; love I cannot.“
— Claudian
Paupertas me saeva domat dirusque Cupido:
sed toleranda fames, non tolerandus amor.
Epigram XV http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/Carmina_Minora*/omnia.html#XV
Originál: (la) Paupertas me saeva domat dirusque Cupido:<br/>sed toleranda fames, non tolerandus amor.
„Quiet authority accomplishes what violence cannot, and that mandate compels more which comes from a commanding calm.“
— Claudian
Peragit tranquilla potestas
quod violenta nequit; mandataque fortius urget
imperiosa quies.
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli, lines 239-241 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/Manlio_Theodoro*.html#239.
Originál: (la) Peragit tranquilla potestas<br/>quod violenta nequit; mandataque fortius urget<br/>imperiosa quies.
„But he whom reason, not anger, animates is a peer of the gods.“
— Claudian
Dis proximus ille est,
quem ratio non ira movet.
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli, lines 227-228 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/Manlio_Theodoro*.html#227.
Originál: (la) Dis proximus ille est,<br/>quem ratio non ira movet.
„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
Iam non ad culmina rerum
iniustos crevisse queror; tolluntur in altum
ut lapsu graviore ruant.
In Rufinum, Bk. I, lines 21-23 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/In_Rufinum/1*.html#21.
Originál: (la) Iam non ad culmina rerum<br/>iniustos crevisse queror; tolluntur in altum<br/>ut lapsu graviore ruant.
„Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.“
— Claudian
Natura beatis,
omnibus esse dedit, si quis cognoverit uti.
In Rufinum, Bk. I, lines 215-216 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/In_Rufinum/1*.html#215.
Originál: (la) Natura beatis,<br/>omnibus esse dedit, si quis cognoverit uti.
„Whoso causes terror is himself more fearful.“
— Claudian
Panegyricus de Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti, line 290 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/De_IV_Consulatu_Honorii*.html#290.
Originál: (la) Qui terret plus ipse timet.
