manowar Posted November 28 Report Share Posted November 28 The quote that appears from the play Trinummus by Plautus in the file https://github.com/0ad/0ad/blob/master/binaries/data/mods/public/gui/text/quotes.txt Quote “You cannot eat your cake and have it too, unless you think your money is immortal.”\n— Plautus (“Trinummus”, Act II, scene 4, 13–14) I am unable to find that quote in an online version of the play here Are we sure this quote is accurate ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted November 28 Report Share Posted November 28 @wowgetoffyourcellphone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outis Posted November 28 Report Share Posted November 28 Wasnt that from the Unabomber's manifesto? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted November 28 Report Share Posted November 28 https://libquotes.com/plautus/quote/lbx0m0c Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manowar Posted November 28 Author Report Share Posted November 28 It sounds like 'Bonnell Thornton' translated Plautus from 'if you spend a thing you cannot have it' to 'You cannot eat your cake and have it too' https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/respectfully-quoted/john-heywood-14971580/ Quote AUTHOR: John Heywood (1497?–1580?) QUOTATION: Would yee both eat your cake, and have your cake? ATTRIBUTION: JOHN HEYWOOD, The Proverbs of John Heywood, part 2, chapter 9, p. 162 (1598, reprinted 1874, 1978). The idea that if you spend a thing you cannot have it goes back much further than Heywood’s original 1546 work. Plautus wrote c. 194 B.C. in Trinummus (act II, scene iv, line 414), “Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest” (if you spend a thing you cannot have it), translated as “You cannot eat your cake and have it too” by one Englishman.—Comedies of Plautus, trans. Bonnell Thornton, 2d ed., rev., vol. 2, p. 29 (1769). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted November 29 Report Share Posted November 29 18 hours ago, manowar said: It sounds like 'Bonnell Thornton' translated Plautus from 'if you spend a thing you cannot have it' to 'You cannot eat your cake and have it too' https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/respectfully-quoted/john-heywood-14971580/ If that's true, then the more literal translation would be best: "If you spend a thing you cannot have it too." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurken Khan Posted November 29 Report Share Posted November 29 1 hour ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said: "If you spend a thing you cannot have it too." "If something is wet it is not dry." Idk, sounds trivial. Should we even keep it? And /or we could consider other quotes, maybe make a call for suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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