Marcus Argentarius Quotes (0-)

“Οὐκ ἔσθ᾽ οὗτος ἔρως, εἴ τις καλὸν εἶδος ἔχουσαν
  βούλετ᾽ ἔχειν, φρονίμοις ὄμμασι πειθόμενος:
ἀλλ᾽ ὅστις κακόμορφον ἰδών, τετορημένος ἰοῖς
  στέργει, μαινομένης ἐκ φρενὸς αἰθόμενος,
οὗτος ἔρως, πῦρ τοῦτο: τὰ γὰρ καλὰ πάντας ὁμοίως
  τέρπει τοὺς κρίνειν εἶδος ἐπισταμένους.
• That is not love if one, trusting his judicious eyes, wishes to possess a beauty. But he who seeing a homely face is pierced by the arrows and loves, set alight by fury of the heart—that is love, that is fire; for beauty delights equally all who are good judges of form.”

“Ἠράσθης πλουτῶν, Σωσίκρατες: ἀλλὰ πένης ὢν
  οὐκέτ᾽ ἐρᾷς: λιμὸς φάρμακον οἷον ἔχει.
ἡ δὲ πάρος σε καλεῦσα μύρον καὶ τερπνὸν Ἄδωνιν
  Μηνοφίλα, νῦν σου τοὔνομα πυνθάνεται,
“τίς πόθεν εἶς ἀνδρῶν, πόθι τοι πτόλις”; ἦ μόλις ἔγνως
  τοῦτ᾽ ἔπος, ὡς οὐδεὶς οὐδὲν ἔχοντι φίλος.
• You fell in love, Sosicrates, when rich; now you are poor, you are in love no longer. What an admirable cure is hunger! And Menophila, who used to call you her sweety and her darling Adonis, now asks your name. “What man are you, and whence, your city where?”* You have perforce learnt the meaning of the saying, “None is the friend of him who has nothing.””