Петроний Арбитр цитаты
Петроний Арбитр
Дата рождения: 27 н.э.
Дата смерти: 66 н.э.
Другие имена:Titus Petronius
Петроний Арбитр — автор древнеримского романа «Сатирикон», обычно отождествляемый с сенатором Петронием, о котором писал Тацит.
Имя Петроний Арбитр названо во всех манускриптах романа. Его подтверждают позднейшие ссылки и отзывы, в которых, без сомнения, речь идёт об авторе «Сатирикона».
Цитаты Петроний Арбитр
„Not worth his salt.“
— Petronius
Sec. 57
„For I myself saw the Sibyl indeed at Cumae with my own eyes hanging in a jar; and when the boys used to say to her, "Sibyl, what do you want?" she replied, 'I want to die."“
— Petronius
Sec. 48
In the T. S. Eliot poem, "The Waste Land", this quote is written in Greek and Latin as follows: Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: ἀποθανεῖν θέλω. The translation generally associated with Eliot's poem is as follows: For with my own eyes I saw the Sibyl hanging in a bottle, and when the young boys asked her, 'Sibyl, what do you want?', she replied, 'I want to die' .
The quote refers to the mythic Cumaean Sibyl who bargained with Apollo, offering her virginity for years of life totaling as many grains of sand as she could hold in her hand. However, after she spurned his love, he allowed her to wither away over the span of her near-immortality, as she forgot to ask for eternal youth.
„Translation: The studied spontaneity of Horace.“
— Petronius
Variant translation: Horace’s careful felicity.
Sec. 118
