Плиний Старший цитаты
Плиний Старший
Дата рождения: 23 н.э.
Дата смерти: 24. Август 79 н.э.
Другие имена: Starší Plinius, Plinio il Vecchio
Пли́ний Ста́рший — древнеримский писатель-эрудит.
Наиболее известен как автор «Естественной истории» — крупнейшего энциклопедического сочинения античности; другие его сочинения не дошли до наших дней. Приходился дядей Гаю Плинию Цецилию Секунду, известному как Плиний Младший .
Плиний служил в армии на северной границе Римской империи, а после возвращения в Рим занялся литературной деятельностью. После прихода к власти императора Веспасиана, с сыном которого Титом он служил, был призван на государственную службу. В 70-е годы Плиний исполнял обязанности наместника в провинциях и командовал флотом в Неаполитанском заливе. В 77 или 78 году издал «Естественную историю», посвятив её Титу. Погиб в результате извержения Везувия.
Цитаты Плиний Старший
„Море! Ты истинная таинственная святыня муз. Сколько ты рассказываешь, сколько заставляешь воображать!“
Источник: Каланов Н.А. Афоризмы и цитаты о море и моряках. — М.: Моркнига, 2018, с. 161, ISBN 978-5-903080-23-6
„Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book VII, sec. 4.
Naturalis Historia
„Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she [Nature] abandon to cries and lamentations.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book VII, sec. 2.
Naturalis Historia
„Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book VIII, sec. 126.
Naturalis Historia
„The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book VII, sec. 8.
Naturalis Historia
„When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book VIII, sec. 103.
Naturalis Historia
Добавить примечание: (la) ruinis inminentibus musculi praemigrant...
„Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill,—the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows,—when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book XVIII, sec. 20.
Naturalis Historia
„The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs…. A bad bargain is always a ground for repentance.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book XVIII, sec. 26.
Naturalis Historia
„It is generally admitted that the absent are warned by a ringing in the ears, when they are being talked about.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book XXVIII, sec. 5.
Naturalis Historia
Добавить примечание: (la) Absentes tinnitu aurium præsentire sermones de se receptum est.
„It is asserted that the dogs keep running when they drink at the Nile, for fear of becoming a prey to the voracity of the crocodile.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book VIII, sec. 148.
Naturalis Historia
„The bird of passage known to us as the cuckoo.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book XVIII, sec. 249.
Naturalis Historia
„With a grain of salt.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book XXIII, sec. 8.
Naturalis Historia
Добавить примечание: (la) Cum grano salis.
„The only certainty is that nothing is certain.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Fuller version: This series of instances entangles unforeseeing mortality, so that among these things but one thing is in the least certainthat nothing certain exists, and that nothing is more pitiable, or more presnmptuous, than man! In Latin: Quae singula inprovidam mortalitatem involvunt, solum ut inter ista vel certu sit nihil esse certi nec quicquam miserius homine aut superbius.
Book II, sec. 5.
Naturalis Historia
„Fortune favours the brave.“
Attributed by Pliny the Younger to his uncle during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in which the Elder died
Quoted in [Pliny, translated by William Melmoth, Letters of Pliny, c.100 CE, eBook, 1927, Bibliobytes, Hoboken, NJ, English, ISBN 0585049971, LXV, to Tacitus http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2811/2811-h/2811-h.htm#link2H_4_0065, p. 48, Here he stopped to consider whether he should turn back again; to which the pilot advising him, "Fortune", said he, "favours the brave; steer to where Pomponianus is."]
Commonly quoted as "Fortune favours the bold".
Добавить примечание: (la) Fortes Fortuna iuvat.
