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Quintus Curtius Rufus bol rímsky prozaik, autor zábavného historického románu Historiae Alexandri Magni , ktorý pojednáva o dobrodružstvách Alexandra Macedónskeho počas jeho výprav v Oriente.

Curtius Rufus zostáva spornou historickou osobou, o živote ktorej nemáme v starovekých prameňoch ani najmenší záznam. Historikom chýba dokonca i akýkoľvek časový údaj, ktorý by im umožnil zasadiť ho presnejšie do rímskych dejín. Podľa narážok v texte jeho diela sa dnes predpokladá, že mohol žiť počas vlády cisára Claudia .

Už v helenistickej dobe bola postava veľkého vojvodcu Alexandra Macedónskeho predmetom rady literárnych diel historického i zábavného charakteru. Jeho bájami a legendami opradené dobrodružstvá dávali vzniknúť fantastickým románom, v ktorých sa objavovali magické bytosti a realita sa miesila s mýtom. S prienikom gréckej vzdelanosti a literatúry do Ríma v 2. storočí pred Kr. si románový Alexander podmanil aj Rimanov. Alexandrova heroická osobnosť získala na popularite obzvlášť počas cisárstva, kedy sa mnohí z rímskych cisárov štylizovali do role tohto starovekého vojvodcu. Zábavné romány o Alexandrových činoch neprestávali byť čítané, ako to dokladá popularita ich gréckych podôb, a samozrejme ich nové, latinské spracovania – jedno z ktorých vytvoril práve Curtius Rufus.



Historiae Alexandri Magni sa skladali z 10 kníh. Z nich prvé dve sa stratili a v ostatných chýbajú niektoré časti. Curtius Rufus použil ako zdroje pre svoje dielo jednak historické práce o Alexandrovi Veľkom , jednak diela spadajúce do zábavnej literatúry. Historiae sa prikláňajú skôr k druhej kategórii – sú písané pútavým, pestrým štýlom, ale objavujú sa v nich nedostatky v chronológii, geografii, etnografii aj vojenstve. Na niektorých miestach si Curtius Rufus výslovne protirečí, čo len dokazuje, že jeho zámerom bolo čitateľa nie poučiť ale pobaviť. Jeho Alexander je fantastický románový hrdina non plus ultra.

Curtiovo dielo je jedným z mála dochovaných starovekých románov o Alexandrovi Veľkom. Výrazne ovplyvnil neskoršiu alexandrovskú literatúru, ktorá sa ďalej rozvíjala v neskorej antike a počas stredoveku. Wikipedia  

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“A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.”
Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.

VII, 4, 13.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book VII

“Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.”
Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.

IX, 5, 6.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IX

“Just as in ailing bodies, my soldiers, physicians leave nothing which will do harm, so let us cut away whatever stands in the way of our rule. Often to have ignored a tiny spark has roused a great conflagration. Nothing is safely despised in an enemy; one whom you have scorned you make stronger by neglect.”
Sicut in corporibus aegris, milites, nihil quod nociturum est medici relinquunt, sic nos quidquid obstat imperio recidamus. Parva sæpe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium. Nil tuto in hoste despicitur; quem spreveris, valentiorem neglentia facias.

VI, 3, 11; translation by John Carew Rolfe
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book VI

“It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate.”
Sæpe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.

IV, 10, 27.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV

“The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent.”
Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.

IV, 14, 20.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV

“As for myself, I report more things than I believe; for I cannot bring myself to vouch for that which I am in doubt, nor to suppress what I have heard.”
Equidem plura transcribo quam credo; nam nec affirmare sustineo de quibus dubito, nec subducere quae accepi.

IX, 1, 34; translation by John Carew Rolfe
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IX

“A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.”
Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.

VI, 4, 13.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book VI

“For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestinated.”
Equidem æterna constitutione crediderim nexuque causarum latentium et multo ante destinatarum suum quemque ordinem immutabili lege percurrere.

V, 11, 10.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book V

“That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits is eternal.”
Non est diuturna possessio in quam gladio ducimus; beneficiorum gratia sempiterna est.

VIII, 8, 11.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book VIII

“But physicians also cure more desperate maladies by harsh remedies, and a pilot, when he fears shipwreck, rescues by jettison whatever can be saved.”
Sed medici quoque graviores morbos asperis remediis curant, et gubernator, ubi nafraugium timet, iactura quidquid servari potest redimit.

V, 9, 3; translation by John Carew Rolfe
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book V

“Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.”
Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.

IV, 14, 19.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV

“Habit is stronger than nature.”
Consuetudo natura potentior est.

V, 5, 21.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book V

“Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.”
Res secundæ valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.

X, 1, 40.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book X

“Fear makes men believe the worst.”
Ad deteriora credenda proni metu.

IV, 3, 22.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV

“When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear.”
Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidare cœperunt.

IV, 16, 17.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV

“The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.”
Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labuntur.

VII, 4, 13.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book VII

“He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.”
Stultus est qui fructus magnarum arborum spectat, altitudinem non metitur.

VII, 8.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book VII

“Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.”
Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.

IV, 3, 23.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV

“Repute is never transmitted with certainty; all things that she reports are exaggerated. Even our glory, although it rests on a solid foundation, is greater in name than in fact.”
Numquam ad liquidum fama perducitur; omnia illa tradente maiora sunt vero. Nostra quoque gloria, cum sit ex solido, plus tamen habet nominis quam operis.

IX, 2, 14; translation by John Carew Rolfe
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IX

“But in times of tumult haste is even slow.”
Sed in tumultu festinatio quoque tarda est

IX, 9, 12
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IX

“When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.”
Ubi explorari vera non possunt, falsa per metum augentur.

IV, 10, 10.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV

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