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Book XI - Convivial and Satirical Epigrams
No. 50 - Automedon
"Blest is he first who owes naught to anyone, next he who never married, and thirdly he who is childless. But if a man be mad enough to marry, it is a blessing for him if he buries his wife at once after getting a handsome dowry. Knowing this, be wise, and leave Epicurus to enquire in vain where is the void and what are the atoms."
Translated W. R. Paton
Book XI - Convivial and Satirical Epigrams
No. 93 - Lucilius
"Lean Marcus once made a hole with his head in one of Epicurus' atoms and went through the middle of it."
Translated W. R. Paton
Book XI - Convivial and Satirical Epigrams
No. 103 - Lucilius
Epicurus wrote that all the world consisted of atoms, thinking, Alcimus, that an atom was the most minute thing. But if Diophantus had existed then he would have written that it consisted of Diophantus, who is much more minute than the atoms. Or he would have written that other things were composed of atoms, but the atoms themselves, Alcimus, of Diophantus.
Translated W. R. Paton
Book XI - Convivial and Satirical Epigrams
No. 249 - Lucilius
"Menophanes bought a field, and from hunger hanged himself on another man's oak. When he was dead they had no earth to throw over him from above, but he was buried for payment in the ground of one of his neighbors. If Epicurus had known of Menophanes' field he would have said that everything is full of fields, not of atoms."
Translated W. R. Paton
Those are wild but I am not sure at all to make out of Book 10 number 249
Book XI - Convivial and Satirical Epigrams
No. 50 - Automedon
"Blest is he first who owes naught to anyone, next he who never married, and thirdly he who is childless. But if a man be mad enough to marry, it is a blessing for him if he buries his wife at once after getting a handsome dowry. Knowing this, be wise, and leave Epicurus to enquire in vain where is the void and what are the atoms."
Translated W. R. Paton
While I don't endorse the overall sentiment in any way (for the record), I find it interesting that "blest" is used to translate the first word Ευδαίμων Eudaimōn (i.e., Eudaimonia).
Yes it seems like the majority of these are anti Epicurean but that does not mean they aren't valuable. Maybe we need a warning in the first post or the thread
