#palladas

[leitharstjarna]

— Palladas (trans. Harold Anthony Lloyd)

[lionofchaeronea]

Wealth, a Boon and Bane

Anthologia Palatina 9.394 = Palladas (fl. 4th cent. CE) Gold, flatterers’ father, Pain’s and anxiety’s son, Having you breeds fear; Not having you, agony.  Χρυσέ, πάτερ κολάκων, ὀδύνης καὶ φροντίδος υἱέ, καὶ τὸ ἔχειν σε, φόβος: καὶ μὴ ἔχειν σ᾽, ὀδύνη.

Still Life with Flowers and Gold Cups of Honor, Clara Peeters, 1612

[mun-dane]

‘Learn to love tranquility, against all odds’

— Palladas, tr. by Tony Harrison, from “The Greek Anthology: And Other Ancient Greek Epigrams”

[somepoorsod]

As night fades, we are born again, day upon day; of our previous life, nothing still remains to us; we leave the road we trod yesterday, never to return; we begin today the rest of our life. So don't tell yourself all those years are too much, old one: they're past and they mean nothing to you today.

Palladas in the Greek Anthology (10.79); my translation

νυκτὸς ἀπερχομένης γεννώμεθα ἦμαρ ἐπ᾽ ἦμαρ, τοῦ προτέρου βιότου μηδὲν ἔχοντες ἔτι, ἀλλοτριωθέντες τῆς ἐχθεσινῆς διαγωγῆς, τοῦ λοιποῦ δὲ βίου σήμερον ἀρχόμενοι. μὴ τοίνυν λέγε σαυτὸν ἐτῶν, πρεσβῦτα, περισσῶν τῶν γὰρ ἀπελθόντων σήμερον οὐ μετέχεις.

[leitharstjarna]

— Palladas (trans. Harold Anthony Lloyd)

[leitharstjarna]

by Palladas, a Greek poet from Egypt, about Hypatia, a Greek philosopher from Egypt, who was brutally murdered by a Christian mob in 415 AD. (Greek Anthology IX.400, trans. Harold Anthony Lloyd)

[lionofchaeronea]

On the Value of Letter-Writing

Anthologia Palatina 9.401 = Palladas (4th cent. CE) Nature, loving the laws of friendship, Invented tools by which even those Who dwell apart can share a visit: The reed-pen and the sheet of paper, Black ink and the characters The hand makes – tokens of a soul That, far off, is full of grief.  ἡ φύσις ἐξεῦρεν, φιλίης θεσμοὺς ἀγαπῶσα, τῶν ἀποδημούντων ὄργανα συντυχίης, τὸν κάλαμον, χάρτην, τὸ μέλαν, τὰ χαράγματα χειρός, σύμβολα τῆς ψυχῆς τηλόθεν ἀχνυμένης.

Reading the Letter, Thomas Benjamin Kennington, 1885

[nudeartpluspoetry]

"This is All the Life There Is," by Palladas, translated from the Greek ...