单词 | whom the gods love die young |
释义 | > as lemmaswhom the gods love die young (b) whom the gods love die young. [After classical Latin quem dī dīligunt adulēscēns moritur ( Plautus Bacchides l. 816-817), itself after ancient Greek ὅν οἱ θεοὶ ϕιλοῦσιν ἀποθνήισκει νέος ( Menander Dis Exapaton frag. 4).] ΚΠ 1546 W. Hugh Troubled Mans Med. ii. sig. B.viiiv But among all other, saith the great poete Menander: Most happy be they and best belouid of god, that dye whan they be yong.] 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV xii. 77 ‘Whom the gods love die young’ was said of yore. 1878 R. L. Stevenson Aes Triplex in Cornhill Mag. Apr. 437 When the Greeks made their fine saying that those whom the gods love die young, I cannot help believing they had this sort of death also in their eye. 1972 A. Price Col. Butler's Wolf xx. 224 ‘Whom the gods love die young’, the war taught us that. < as lemmas |
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