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Business idleness. business bum

Aristophanes

Phraseologism: Business idleness. Business bum.

Meaning: A joke paradox.

Origin: This paradox is found in various formulations by ancient authors. For example, Aristophanes (c. 446-385 BC - "lazy activity" ("Frogs"), Horace (65-8 BC) - "active inaction" (Letters 1, 11, Phaedra (I century AD) - "leisure activities", in Seneca (4-65 AD) "restless inactivity" ("On the peace of the soul", 12), "an idle occupation" (" On the brevity of life ", 11), "inactive business" (ibid., 12). This antithesis, following ancient literature, was assimilated by the world literature of modern times. The founder of the new Danish literature, Ludwig Golberg (1684-1754), belongs to the comedy "Business Loafer" , in imitation of which in Germany in 1743 a comedy by Johann Elias Schlegel (1718-1749) appeared under the same name.

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What artist is dying!

Meaning:

About someone's hypocritical behavior (iron.).

Origin:

From Latin: Qualis artifex pereo! The last words of the Roman emperor Nero (37-68), uttered by him before his suicide, - all his life he considered himself by calling, first of all, an actor, and only then an emperor. As the Roman historian Suetonius (Gaius Suetonius Tranquill, c. 70 - c. 140) writes in the Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Nero, having decided to commit suicide, "ordered in his presence to dig a grave to measure his body and at the same time collect where there will be pieces of marble, and also to bring water and firewood, which will soon be needed for his corpse.At the same time, every time he sobbed and kept repeating: "What a great artist is dying!"

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