manowar Posted yesterday at 14:13 Report Share Posted yesterday at 14:13 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 23 hours ago Report Share Posted 23 hours ago @wowgetoffyourcellphone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outis Posted 23 hours ago Report Share Posted 23 hours ago Wasnt that from the Unabomber's manifesto? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted 23 hours ago Report Share Posted 23 hours ago https://libquotes.com/plautus/quote/lbx0m0c Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manowar Posted 22 hours ago Author Report Share Posted 22 hours ago 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 3 hours ago Report Share Posted 3 hours ago 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 2 hours ago Report Share Posted 2 hours ago 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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