Publius Ovidius Naso: Citáty v angličtine
Publius Ovidius Naso bol rímsky básnik. Citáty v angličtine.“The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.”
Causa latet, vis est notissima
Ovid Metamorphoses
Variant translation: The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
Book IV, 287
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
Varianta: The cause is hidden, but the result is well known.
“Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.”
Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus
Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit.
Ovid kniha Heroides
Book III, line 425
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Zdroj: Heroides
Kontext: Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
“So I can't live either without you or with you.”
Sic ego nec sine te nec tecum vivere possum.
Ovid kniha Amores
Variant translation: Thus, I can neither live without you nor with you.
Book III; xib, 39
Compare: Nec possum tecum vivere nec sine te ("I cannot live with you nor without you"), Martial, Epigrams XII, 46
Amores (Love Affairs)
“Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).”
Ovid Metamorphoses
Varianta: All things change; nothing perishes.
Zdroj: Metamorphoses
“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”
Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim.
“Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.”
Ovid Metamorphoses
Zdroj: Metamorphoses
Zdroj: The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
“We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”
Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.
Ovid kniha Amores
Variant translation: We hunt for things unlawful with swift feet, / As if forbidden joys were only sweet.
Book III; iv, 17
Amores (Love Affairs)