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Plaute citations célèbres
“L'homme est pour l'homme un loup, non un homme, quand on ne sait pas quel il est.”
Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.
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La Comédie des ânes (Asinaria)
Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium divorti potest, quin, ubi triduum continuum fuerit, jam odiosis siet.
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Le Soldat fanfaron (Miles gloriosus)
“Ô Liban, comme on est à plaindre, quand on aime!”
O Libane, ut miser est homo, qui amat.
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Léonidas à Libanus (Liban).
La Comédie des ânes (Asinaria)
“Du moins c'est mon plus cher désir; quelle en sera l'issue, cela est entre les mains des dieux.”
Sperat quidem animus : quo eveniat, diis in manu est.
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Les Bacchis (Bacchis)
Qui e nuce nuculeum esse volt, frangit nucem.
qui volt cubare, pandit saltum saviis.
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Charançon (Curculio)
Plaute Citations
“Celui qu'aiment les dieux meurt jeune, en santé, sens et raison.”
Quem di diligunt, adulescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.
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Lieu commun grec antique que l'on trouve chez des auteurs grecs comme Hérodote et Ménandre. (Note de Paul Mazon.)
Les Bacchis (Bacchis)
“Garder son calme dans l'adversité, c'est déjà s'enlever la moitié du mal.”
Bonus animus in mala re dimidiumst mali.
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L'Imposteur (Pseudolus)
“Je suis fini, je suis mort, je suis assassiné.”
Perii, interii, occidi.
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L'avare Euclion venant de découvrir que son or a disparu.
La Comédie de la Marmite (Aulularia)
“Il n'y a rien de plus malheureux qu'un homme dont la conscience n'est pas nette.”
Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis conscius.
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La Comédie du fantôme (Mostellaria)
“Tu cherches un nœud dans un jonc.”
In scirpo nodum quaeris
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Proverbe signifiant "se créer des difficultés inutilement".
Les Ménechmes (Menaechmi)
“Obtenez la victoire par votre valeur véritable.”
Vincite virtute vera.
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Casina ou Les Tireurs de sort
“L'amour est source de miel aussi bien que de fiel.”
Amor et melle et felle est fecundissimus.
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La Comédie de la corbeille (Cistellaria)
Te de aliis, quam alios de te suaviust
fieri doctos.
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Le Perse (Persa)
“Ce n'est point par hasard qu'un corbeau a crié tout à l'heure sur ma gauche.”
Non temere est quod corvos cantat mihi nunc ab laeva manu
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Affirmation superstitieuse de l'avare Euclion.
La Comédie de la Marmite (Aulularia)
“Mais moi, j'aime la vérité, je veux que l'on me dise la vérité, je déteste le mensonge.”
Ego verum amo, verum vol mihi dici : mendacem odi.
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La Comédie du fantôme (Mostellaria)
Virtus praemium 'st optimum.
Virtus omnibus rebus anteit profecto.
Libertas, salus, vita, res, parenteis, Patria et prognati tutantur, servantur;
virtus omnia in sese habet ; omnia adsunt bona, quem penes est virtus.
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Amphitryon
Miles Gloriosus
Miles Gloriosus
Variante: Je veux que tu en aies toi-même la preuve par expérience, sans la chercher ailleurs. Quand on n'aime pas pour son propre compte, on voit d'un oeil chagrin l'humeur des amants. Il y a encore en moi quelque ardeur amoureuse, mon corps a toujours de la sève; et mes sens ne sont pas éteints pour les agréments et les plaisirs de la vie. Je suis un rieur de bon goût, un convive agréable; dans un dîner, je ne coupe jamais la parole à personne; j'ai le bon esprit de ne pas me rendre importun aux convives; je sais prendre part à la conversation avec mesure, et me taire à propos, quand c'est à d'autres à parler; je ne suis point cracheur ni pituiteux, et point roupieux le moins du monde; enfin, je suis d'Éphèse, et non pas d'Apulie (53), je ne suis pas un « petit coeur ».
Plaute: Citations en anglais
“You should not speak ill of an absent friend.”
Ne male loquare absenti amico.
Plautus
Trinummus
Trinummus, Act IV, sc. 2, line 81.
Trinummus (The Three Coins)
“Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.”
Non aetate, verum ingenio apiscitur sapientia.
Plautus
Trinummus
Trinummus, Act II, sc. 2, line 88.
Trinummus (The Three Coins)
“Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.”
Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.
Plautus
Asinaria
Asinaria, Act II, scene 4 (line 495 of full Latin text).
Variant translation: A man is a wolf rather than a man to another man, when he hasn't yet found out what he's like.
Often quoted as "Homo homini lupus" [A man is a wolf to another man].
Asinaria (The One With the Asses)
“Keep what you’ve got; the evil that we know is best. (translator Thornton)”
Habeus ut nactus ; nota mala res optima’st.
Plautus
Trinummus
Trinummus, Act I, scene 2, lines 25
Trinummus (The Three Coins)
“No blessing lasts forever.”
Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.
Plautus
Curculio
Curculio, Act I, scene 3, line 32
Curculio (The Weevil)
“Conquer by means of true virtue.”
Plautus
Casina
Casina, Prologue, line 87
Casina (The Lot Drawers)
“If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.”
[S}i sapias, sapias : habeus quod di dant boni.
Plautus
Rudens
Rudens, Act IV, sc. 7, line 3; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Variant translation: [A] word to the wise! Keep what the Gods have given you. (translation by Cleveland King Chase)
Rudens (The Rope)
“For what is idly got is idly spent.”
Male partum, male disperit.
Plautus
Poenulus
Poenulus, Act IV, sc. 2, line 22
Poenulus (The Little Carthaginian)
“Things we hope not for oftener come to pass than things we wish for. (translated by Thornton)”
Insperata accidunt magis saepe quam que speres.
Plautus
Mostellaria
Act I, scene 3, line 42.
Variant translation: Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. (translator unknown)
Mostellaria (The Haunted House)
“Love is very fruitful both of honey and gall.”
Amor et melle et felle est faecundissimus.
Plautus
Cistellaria
Cistellaria, Act I, scene 1, line 70
Cistellaria (The Casket)
“For him I reckon lost who’s lost to shame.”
Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.
Plautus
Les Bacchis
Bacchides Act III, scene 3, line 80.
Variant translation: I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame. (translator unknown)
Bacchides (The Bacchises)
“For what is yours is mine, and mine is yours.”
Quod tuum’st, meum’st; omne meum est autem tuum.
Plautus
Trinummus
Trinummus, Act II, sc. 2, line 47.
Trinummus (The Three Coins)
“Oh, are not the pleasures in life, in this daily round, trifling compared with the pains!”
Satin parva res est voluptatum in vita atque in aetate agunda praequam quod molestum est?
Plautus
Amphitryon
Amphitryon, Act II, scene 2.
Amphitryon
“But ne’ertheless reflect, the little mouse, how sage a brute it is! Who never trusts its safety to one hole : for when it finds one entrance is block’d up, it has secure some other outlet.”
Cogito, mus pusillus quam sit sapiens bestia, aetatem qui uni cubili nunquam committit suam : quia si unum ostium obsideatur, aliud perfugium gerit.
Plautus
Truculentus
Truculentus, Act IV, sc. iv, line 15.
Variant translation: Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only. (translator unknown)
Truculentus
“The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound thereafter to be boneless.”
Plautus
Amphitryon
Amphitryon, Act I, scene 1.
Amphitryon
“I say, Libanus, what a poor devil a chap in love is!”
Plautus
Asinaria
Asinaria, Act III, scene 3.
Asinaria (The One With the Asses)
“Whene’er a man is quartered at a friend’s, if he but stay three days, his company they will grow weary of. (translator Thornton)”
Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium divorti potest, quin, ubi triduum continuum fuerit, jam odiosis siet.
Plautus
Le Soldat fanfaron
Miles Gloriosus, Act III, scene 1, line 146.
Variant translation: No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. (translator unknown)
Miles Gloriosus (The Swaggering Soldier)
“One eyewitness weighs more than ten hearsays. Seeing is believing, all the world over.”
Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem. Qui audiunt, audita dicunt: qui vident, plane sciunt.
Plautus
Truculentus
Truculentus, Act II, sc. 6, line 8.
Truculentus
“It is better to learn from the mistakes of others than that others should learn from you.”
Te de aliis, quam alios de te suaviu’st.
Plautus
Persa
Persa, Act IV, scene 3, line 70
Variant translation: ’Tis sweeter far wisdom to gain from other’s woes, than others should learn from ours. (translation by Bonnell Thornton)
Persa (The Persian)
“Conquered, we conquer”
Victi vicimus
Plautus
Casina
Casina, Act II, scene viii, line 74
Casina (The Lot Drawers)
“Ne male loquare absenti amico.”
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Trinummus
You should not speak ill of an absent friend.
Trinummus, Act IV, sc. 2, line 81.
Trinummus (The Three Coins)
“In re mala animo si bono utare, adjuvat.”
Plautus
Captivi
Our best support and succor in distress is fortitude of mind. (translator Thornton)
Captivi, Act II, scene 1, line 8
Variant translation: The best assistance in distress is fortitude of soul. (translator unknown)
Captivi (The Prisoners)
“I had a regular battle with the dunghill-cock.”
Plautus
Aulularia
Aulularia, Act III, sc. 4, 13; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Aulularia (The Pot of Gold)
