whom the gods love die young
- whom the gods love die young
Cf. MENANDER Dis Exapaton fragment 4 (Sandbach) ὅν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνῄσκει νέος, he whom the gods love dies young; PLAUTUS Bacchides 1. 817 quem di diligunt, Adolescens moritur, he whom the gods favour, dies young.
1546 W. HUGHE Troubled Man’s Medicine B8v Most happy be they and best belouid of god, that dye whan they be young.
1553 T. WILSON Art of Rhetoric 40v Whom god loueth best, those he taketh sonest.
1651 G. HERBERT Jacula Prudentum no. 1094 Those that God loves, do not live long.
1821 BYRON Don Juan IV. xii. ‘Whom the gods love die young,’ was said of yore, And many deaths do they escape by this.
1972 A. PRICE Colonel Butler’s Wolf xx. ‘Whom the gods love die young,’ the war taught us that.
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