From lzmorgan@bcpl.net Sat Jun 1 10:58:46 2002 Received: from mailscan5.cac.washington.edu (mailscan5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g51Hwiw3060198 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 10:58:45 -0700 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan5.cac.washington.edu ; Sat Jun 01 10:58:44 2002 -0700 Received: from mail.bcpl.net (mail.bcpl.net [204.255.212.10]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g51HwhKj018086 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 10:58:44 -0700 Received: from bcpl.net (ppp733.bcpl.net [208.242.127.75]) by mail.bcpl.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g51Hwf522026 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 13:58:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CF90CC3.20105@bcpl.net> Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 14:04:51 -0400 From: Leslie Zarker Morgan X-Accept-Language: en,fr,it,de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Question about a medieval Latin reference Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Classicists, Though I know this is a Classical list, may I ask about a medieval reference (fourteenth century, specifically 1341-42) to what I believe is Zeno the Stoic? I've gone through what I could find on Zeno (I don't read Classical Greek) and am trying to find somewhere he might have said "man cannot serve two masters." I know that there are other similar quotes, the most famous perhaps being the Bible, but I would like to know if Zeno said (or was quoted as saying, since his writings seem to have not survived) something similar. The original text reads: ....s[er]vir ne se puet a signor _duobus_. Ce vos co[n]te .Zenat., qe ces calm oit [con]clus. (It's Franco-Italian with Latin mixed in: One cannot serve two masters, this Zenat tells you, who concludes this.... I believe Zenat is Zeno, who might have been anthologized in Latin. I've tried other Zenos, including the Saint from Verona, etc., with no luck.) Thank you for any suggestions, or pointing me in other directions, etc., and sorry to stretch the time limits of the list. Please feel free to answer off the list. LZM -- Leslie Zarker Morgan tel: 410-617-2926 Dept. of Modern Langs. and Lits. email: lzmorgan@bcpl.net Loyola College in Md fax: 410-617-2859 4501 North Charles St. Baltimore MD 21210-2699 USA http://www.evergreen.loyola.edu/~lmorgan .