Male parta male dilabuntur
Male parta male dilabuntur was a common Roman proverb. It can be translated as "badly acquired things go badly to an end" and finds its equivalent in the German saying "Injustice Good does not thrive." .
It is historically documented in the second Philippian speech by Cicero , who quotes Naevius , as well as in the Middle Ages with Nicholas of Oresme in his Tractatus de origine et natura iure & mutationibus monetarum .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Perl : On Sallust's oratio Lepidi . December 6, 17; oratio Philippi 11, pp. 63-71. In: Hermes , Vol. 130 (2002), No. 1, p. 68, ISSN 0018-0777
- ↑ Cicero: 2. Philippica , 65, after Naevius, trag. Frg. 54: Sed, ut est apud poetam nescio quem, male parta male dialabuntur = But, as some poet says, paint ...
- ↑ Nikolaus von Oresme, Tractatus de origine et natura iure & mutationibus monetarum, chapter 12
literature
- Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 13 . Leipzig 1908, p. 166.