Monday, September 10, 2018

The Red Thread of Fate

Siccus, sobrius est Aper: quid ad me?
Servum sic ego laudo, non amicum.

Aper is abstemious, sober: what is that to me?
A slave I praise so, not a friend.

Apro non beve, è sobrio; e che m’importa?
Questa è lode di servo, e non d’amico.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 12, XXX
English translation by Walter C. A. Ker
Italian translation by Giuseppe Lipparini

A dog transfers a puppy to a drier place in the Sangam area of Allahabad, India as water levels of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers increase following monsoon rains. Photo: AFP/Sanjay Kanojia.

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