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Popular memory of an Assyrian inscription (1)

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Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
Interchange of Syria/Assyria in Greek and Latin sources
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.09 Interchange of Syria/Assyria in Greek and Latin sources
Royal inscriptions
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.11 Historiography
05.11.01 Royal inscriptions

Keywords
epigrams
Sardanapalus

Period
1st century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.101:
What charm then can there be in the life where there is no prudence, no temperance? This shows us the mistake of Sardanapalus, the very wealthy king of Syria, who had carved upon his tomb the lines:
“All I have eaten and wantoned and pleasures of love I have tasted,
These I possess but have left all else of my riches behind me.”
“What else,” says Aristotle, “could one inscribe on the grave of an ox, not on that of king?”

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Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.101

Bibliography

King 1960, 526-527

King, J. E. Cicero, Tusculan Disputations. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1960.

Amar Annus

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