Симонид цитаты
Симонид
Дата рождения: 556 до н.э.
Дата смерти: 468 до н.э.
Другие имена:Симонид Кеосский
Симони́д Ке́осский — один из самых значительных лирических поэтов Древней Греции. Был включен в канонический список Девяти лириков учеными эллинистической Александрии. Дядя также входящего в список Девяти лириков поэта Вакхилида.
Цитаты Симонид
„Если ты глуп, то поступаешь умно, но если умен, то поступаешь глупо.“
— Симонид
Молчащему гостю на пирушке
„[Word-for-word translation]
O stranger, announce to the Lacadaemonians [Spartans] that here
We lie, to their words [or laws] obedient.“
— Simonides of Ceos
Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.
Epitaph on the Cenotaph of Thermopylae, recorded by Herodotus.
Note: There is a long unsolved dispute around the interpretation of the word rhemasi, such as laws, words or orders.
Variant translations:
Go, tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,
That here obedient to their laws we lie.
Stranger, go tell the men of Lacedaemon
That we, who lie here, did as we were ordered.
Stranger, bring the message to the Spartans that here
We remain, obedient to their orders.
Oh foreigner, tell the Lacedaemonians
That here we lie, obeying their words.
Go, tell the Spartans, passerby,
that here by Spartan law we lie.
„Not even the gods fight against necessity.“
— Simonides of Ceos
Quoted by Plato in the dialogue Protagoras, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0177%3Atext%3DProt.%3Asection%3D345d 345d] (Simonides Fr. 37.1.27 ff.).
Variant translations:
The gods do not fight against necessity.
Not even the gods war against necessity.
I praise and love all men who do no sin willingly; but with necessity even the gods do not contend.
„Here lies Megistias, who died
When the Medes crossed Spercheius' tide.
A great seer, yet he scorned to save
Himself, and shared the Spartans' grave.“
— Simonides of Ceos
Epitaph of the Spartan Diviner, Megistias, at Thermopylae
„We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.“
— Simonides of Ceos
From the Cenotaph at the Isthmos
„Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.“
— Simonides of Ceos
Quoted by Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0234%3Astephpage%3D346f 3.346f].
Variant translations:
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
Painting is silent poetry, poetry is eloquent painting.
See also: Ut pictura poesis
