Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus
Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus est sententia Latina, primum (quantum scimus) a persona Terentiana citata in fabula cuius titulus est Eunuchus:
- Chremes: Verbum hercle hoc verum erit, "sine Cerere et Libero friget Venus".[1]
Hac sententia multae tabulae pictae inspiratae sunt. Anglice convertit Byron poëta, qui in Don Juan sic scripsit:
- ... some good lessons
- Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus
- Without whom Venus will not long attack us.
- While Venus fills the heart (without heart really
- Love, though good always, is not quite so good),
- Ceres presents a plate of vermicelli, --
- For love must be sustain'd like flesh and blood, --
- While Bacchus pours out wine, or hands a jelly.[2]
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