February 1st, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit."

 February 1st, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit."

"Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit."

"A human is a wolf, not a human, to another human, when he has not learned what they are like." (I note a number of translators render this as "Man is a wolf to man, not a man, when he's a stranger."). The form quom is somewhat archaic, the Classical Latin form would be cum.

~ Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 - c. 184 B.C.E.), Asinaria, 495

Kalendis Februariis anno A.U.C. MMDCCLXXVI