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Carolus Raeticus
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An unpleasant "account"

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Salvete!

I stumbled upon some interesting phrases to express a rather unsympathetic view of someone:
Robertson wrote:A man of no account; homo sordidus, obscurus; nullo loco, ordine, numero; nullius loci, ordinis, numeri, pretii, meriti; infima conditione, loco infimo; imi subsellii; quintae, extremae classis; infra infimos; despectus, despicatissimus, contemptus, abjectus. Qui cum infima multitudine conculcatur, obruitur, consenescit, apud populares sordet. Unus e multis; ex faece populi; sortis humillimae; inter capite--censos, et proletarios. He is, of all others, in all things, of the least "account:" is est, rebus in omnibus, aliorum omnium, facile postremus, infimus; et quo, nihil contemptius, neque despicacius. Who is one of the smallest "account" in the whole city; qui civitatis locum tenet infimum. Men make "account" of him, as of a most useless load and burden of the earth; viri eum aestimant, ut merum--Telluris inutile pondus.
The Romans obviously had no short supply of expressing their dim view of their fellow citizens.

Valete,

Carolus Raeticus
Sperate miseri, cavete felices.

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Re: An unpleasant "account"

Post by horus92 »

Plautus has a lot of insults, though the only one that stuck in my brain is

"ex sterquilinio ecfosse" from the Casinae

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