英语词汇man is a wolf to man的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

man is a wolf to man. Both Bartlett’s and The Oxford Dic- tionary of Quotations attribute this expression, in a slightly different form, to Bartolomeo Vanzetti in his eloquent last speech to the Massachusetts court trying him and Nicola Sacco on charges of robbery and murder in 1927. But the ex- pression is much, much older, dating, back at least to the Roman playwright Plautus in his Asimaria. In 1577 a British author wrote: “Lyons doo not one encounter another, the Serpent stingeth no Serpent: but Man is a Woolfe to Man.” The expression was afterward used by many writers, includ- ing Cowper.

词汇	man is a wolf to man
词源	man is a wolf to man. Both Bartlett’s and The Oxford Dic- tionary of Quotations attribute this expression, in a slightly different form, to Bartolomeo Vanzetti in his eloquent last speech to the Massachusetts court trying him and Nicola Sacco on charges of robbery and murder in 1927. But the ex- pression is much, much older, dating, back at least to the Roman playwright Plautus in his Asimaria. In 1577 a British author wrote: “Lyons doo not one encounter another, the Serpent stingeth no Serpent: but Man is a Woolfe to Man.” The expression was afterward used by many writers, includ- ing Cowper.
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