Euripides, Hecuba 251-257 “Don’t you engage in true evil in these plans When you even admit that I treated you well But instead of helping me you do as much harm as possible? You are a thankless brood, you mob of wannabe Politicians. I wish I didn’t know you When you don’t care about harming…

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21.04.2024

Drugs, the Homeric Scholia and the Lotus-Eaters – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

In Odysseus' tale of his wanderings he recounts how he saved his men from the temptations of the land of the Lotus-Eaters Odyssey 9.82-97 “From there for nine days I was carried by ruinous winds over the fish-bearing sea. On the tenth we came to the land of the Lotus-Eaters where they eat the florid…

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21.04.2024

Taking the Mind Down from the Shelf – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Seneca, Moral Epistles 72.1-2 "The thing you were asking me about used to be clear enough because I had learned it so well. But I haven't checked my memory for a while and it isn't coming back to me so easily. I seem to have turned out like those books that are stuck together from sitting in…

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22.04.2024

Happy Birthday Rome–You Were Almost Remora! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Traditional founding of Rome: April 21, 753 BCE This passage from Ennius is preserved in Cicero's De Divinatione 1.48 “They were struggling over whether the city would be called Roma or Remora. And worry about which one of them would rule infected all men. They were awaiting the word as when the consul wishes to…

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