The English translation of the quote is from D. Lyman's "The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus - a Roman Slave" from 1856. Strangely, Lyman seem to offer two translations of the same quote. The other one is number 741:
"How timid is he who stands in terror of poverty!"
Even more strangely, Hermann Beckby does not include the quote in his German-Latin edition of Publilius Syrus from 1969 even though the quote generally seems to be seen as a genuine quote from Publilius Syrus.
Could the explanation of all of this is that the Latin original is pretty strange? Perhaps Dyman came up with two different translations in an attempt to make sense of the quote - and accidentally published both. And perhaps Beckby gave up making sense of the quote and excluded it from his edition of the Sayings.
The English translation of the quote is from D. Lyman's "The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus - a Roman Slave" from 1856. Strangely, Lyman seem to offer two translations of the same quote. The other one is number 741:
"How timid is he who stands in terror of poverty!"
Even more strangely, Hermann Beckby does not include the quote in his German-Latin edition of Publilius Syrus from 1969 even though the quote generally seems to be seen as a genuine quote from Publilius Syrus.
Could the explanation of all of this is that the Latin original is pretty strange? Perhaps Dyman came up with two different translations in an attempt to make sense of the quote - and accidentally published both. And perhaps Beckby gave up making sense of the quote and excluded it from his edition of the Sayings.
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