Fasti (poem)

The Fasti ('the Calendar'), sometimes translated as 'The Book of Days' or 'On the Roman Calendar', is a six-book Latin poem written by the Roman poet Ovid and published in AD 8.

Quotes

• In pretio pretium nunc est: dat census honores,
  census amicitias: pauper ubique iacet.
  • Nowadays nothing but money counts: fortune brings honours, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
  • I, 217 (tr. Sir James G. Frazer)

• Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit,
  sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.
  • Conscious of innocence, she laughed at fame's untruths; but we of the multitude are prone to think the worst.
  • IV, 311 (tr. Sir James G. Frazer)
  • Cp. Virgil, Aeneid, I, 604
  • Variant translations:
    The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.
    —John Bartlett, ed. Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (1891), p. 707

• Iam color unus inest rebus, tenebrisque teguntur
  omnia, iam vigiles conticuere canes.
  • Now o'er the landscape stole a sober hue, and darkness hid the world: now the watchful dogs were hushed.
  • IV, 489 (tr. Sir James G. Frazer)

• Da modo lucra mihi, da facto gaudia lucro,
  et fac, ut emptori verba dedisse iuvet.
  • Only grant me profits, grant me the joy of profit made, and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!
  • V, 689 (tr. Sir James G. Frazer)

Classical and Foreign Quotations

W. Francis H. King, ed. Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), nos. 180, 282, 353, 420, 527, 535, 685, 764, 768, 869, 892, 904, 1000, 1161, 1897, 2108, 2258, 2358, 2506, 2869

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Translations

• William Thynne, A Translation of Ovid's Fasti into English Prose, Part I (Dublin: J. Cumming, 1833)

• Sir James George Frazer, Ovid's Fasti, LCL 253 (London: William Heinemann Ltd; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931)

• A. S. Kline, "Ovid: Fasti ('On the Roman Calendar')", Poetry in Translation (10 April 2004), Online