Wednesday 11 October 2023

One's Homeland

Aristophanes, Plutus, 1151:

πατρὶς γάρ ἐστι πᾶσ᾿ ἵν᾿ ἂν πράττῃ τις εὖ.
one's homeland is wherever one prospers well
Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes,V.108, quoting Pacuvius's lost play Teucer:
patria est, ubicumque est bene
one's homeland is whenever one is well