Beatus seine qui procul negotiis
Beatus seine, qui procul negotiis is the often quoted first verse from the 2nd poem of the epodes of the Latin poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus ("Horace", 65–8 BC). It means something like happy is he who is far from business ; What is meant is the enthusiasm for country life, i.e. far from the city or the shops.
The full quote reads:
Beatus seine, qui procul negotiis,
ut prisca gens mortalium,
paterna rura bobus exercet suis,
solutus omni faenore;
Neque excitatur classico miles truci
neque horret iratum mare
forumque vitat et superba civium
potentiorum limina.
(Epodes II, 1-8)
Translation: "Happy the man who, far from business, / as the human race once did, / plowing his father's clod with his oxen, / free from debt; / As a soldier he is neither roused by the wild signal / nor frightened by the rumbling sea, / he avoids the forum and the proud palaces / of the mighty. "
See also: List of Latin Phrases
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- ↑ Quintus Horatius Flaccus: Epodi II , Latin original text ( Wikisource )