Talk:List of Latin phrases (H)

Latest comment: 1 year ago by Michael Bednarek in topic homo homini lupus

Additional phrase: "Horae Canonicae" edit

The Wikipedia reference is the literal translation. The more idiomatic meaning is the English "high time". May I add this? Old_Wombat (talk) 11:32, 9 October 2011 (UTC)Reply

Hic Rhodos, hic salta? edit

"Hic Rhodos, hic salta" is missing --2001:A62:1927:B901:14A0:F9ED:7044:39A5 (talk) 21:35, 5 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

homo homini lupus edit

homo homini lupus - man [is a] wolf to man

The entry for this sentence states

First attested in Plautus' Asinaria (lupus est homo homini). 
The sentence was drawn on by Hobbes in Leviathan as a concise expression of his views on human nature.

I searched the text of Leviathan (wikisource) but couldn't find this sentence.

This article (Homo homini lupus) says that Thomas Hobbes drew upon the proverb in his De Cive (writing in the dedication ...)

That is true. Hobbes wrote in his dedication

That Man to Man is a kind of God; and that Man to Man is an arrant. Wolfe.

But why does the entry of this list mention the Leviathan as source of the sentence? 2003:CF:3F0A:8AE3:887B:5AA2:9758:F9AA (talk) 16:39, 31 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

What you write is indeed described in the article homo homini lupus. I corrected it here now. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 01:45, 1 August 2022 (UTC)Reply