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Money does not smell

Titus Flavius Vespasian
Titus Flavius Vespasian

Phraseologism: Money does not smell.

Meaning: On an indiscriminate attitude towards the way in which the money was received (disapproved).

Origin: Expression - tracing paper from lat. "Pecunia non olet", which is a saying of the emperor Vespasian (9-79) quoted by the historian Suetonius in the Life of the Twelve Caesars. When Vespasian's son reproached him for imposing a tax on public latrines, the emperor held the first money from this tax to his nose and asked if it smelled. “But they are from urine,” Vespasian said when his son gave a negative answer.

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Xanthippe.

Meaning:

An angry, quarrelsome, absurd wife next to a calm, contemplative and contemplative husband (jokingly ironic).

Origin:

The name of the wife of the great philosopher of Ancient Greece Socrates, which has become a household name for a grumpy, quarrelsome wife who does not know how to appreciate the mind, talents, deeds of her husband. But documentary evidence about Xanthippe suggests otherwise. So, in the most authoritative source of information about the philosopher - "Memoirs of Socrates", written by his student Xenophon (c. 430-355 BC), - it is said that Xanthippe was a caring wife and selfless mother. And these memoirs do not contain any information about discord in the family of Socrates. Another student of Socrates, the great philosopher of Ancient Greece Plato (427-347 BC), tells how Xanthippe grieved, foreseeing the imminent death of her husband. The myth about the special quarrelsomeness of Xanthippe goes back to the composition "Feast" of the same Xenophon. But, unlike what he wrote about her in his memoirs, in this essay he calls Xanthippe "the most unbearable of women, not only at the present time, but also in the past and in the future." It also contains Socrates' answer to the question of the philosopher Antisthenes, who asked him why he married such an intolerable woman. Socrates allegedly answered: “I observe that people who want to become experienced riders choose not obedient, but hot horses. They are guided by this calculation: if they can curb a hot horse, then it will not be difficult for them to manage others. and I: wishing to be able to deal with people, I married Xanthippe, being sure that if I managed with her, it would be easy for me to communicate with all other people. This dialogue in the "Feast" is explained by the fact that Antisthenes, wishing to emphasize the wisdom of his teacher and the spiritual head of the Cynic philosophical school, specifically opposes Socrates to a person from a world hostile to the philosopher. It is no coincidence that after the appearance of the "Feast" in the philosophical schools of Greece, a new topic for rhetorical exercises was established - the comparative characteristics of Socrates and Xanthippe. During these exercises, the students had to invent dialogues between them, which completely distorted the image of the real wife of Socrates, who had nothing in common with this "philosophical", speculative Xanthippe.

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