Monday 2 June 2008

Pulchrum est paucorum hominum

Pulchrum est paucorum hominum.
(Beauty is for the few)

Horace

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Pulchrum est paucorum hominum in Neitzsche's anti-christ means Few Men are Noble..
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Spiros said...

That is probably a free translation. Neitzsche quotes Horace and the meaning of the phrase is "Beauty is for the few". Search an online version in Amazon.

Anonymous said...

what does this part of the phrase translate as? "paucorum hominum"

Spiros said...

paucorum = few
hominum = men