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Hi, sorry to fiddle - but I only changed "Another of his sayings were" to "Others of his sayings were" - it's still a little clumsy but I think it's a little better. It's interesting stuff, thank you.

All those quotes attributed to Pittacus are actually from the poetry of Alcaeus.

Reversion of date format

As stated in WP:ERA there needs to be a substantial reason for why the date format should be changed to BCE/CE from BC/AD followed by discussion and consensus on the talk page. Since there is none, a proposal will be made to revert the date formats if there are no objections to this not happening. Dalek (talk) 12:31, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See here for the first use an era system in the article, by User:Dimadick. It's BC. I'll not object to reversion: others might. Haploidavey (talk) 18:21, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Whatever you do, do it well" ?

One of the sayings attributed to Pittacus is given here as "Whatever you do, do it well." The source is supposedly Diogenes Laërtius, i. 77. Now the only saying I see there that has any resemblance is "τὸ παρὸν εὖ ποιεῖν", in response to the question what is best. I think a literal translation is, "To do the present well." Hicks translates this as: "To do well the work in hand." Other translations I see on the web include: "To make the most of the present"; "Doing the present work well"; "That which is present to do well".) Whatever the best translation, isn't the present version "Whatever you do, do it well" a bit too much of a stretch? --Lambiam 10:32, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]