Avere la morte fra le mani. Nota a Sen., Epist. 51, 9
In Sen. Epist. 51.9 ( Quo die illam [ sc. fortunam] intellexero plus posse, nil poterit : ego illam feram, cum in manu mors sit ?), editors print either illam or illa me : illa me seems more convincing, since the verb intellego implies the result of a reasoning, while the fact that fortune is mo...
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| Wydane w: | Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes | LXXXVII | 1 | 2013-03-01 | p. 37-40 | 0035-1652 |
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| Streszczenie: | In Sen. Epist. 51.9 ( Quo die illam [ sc. fortunam] intellexero plus posse, nil poterit : ego illam feram, cum in manu mors sit ?), editors print either illam or illa me : illa me seems more convincing, since the verb intellego implies the result of a reasoning, while the fact that fortune is more powerful than men is obvious. At the end of the sentence, it would be better to insert a full stop rather than a question mark : ferre fortunam in Seneca means “to bear” in a positive sense, viz. “to get over misfortune” ; in manu esse alludes to suicide as a supreme form of victory against fate, so the two propositions explain the previous sentence in a positive, and not in an interrogative (or rhetorically interrogative) way. |
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