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Date: 54 B.C.
"[N]or gladly and with joyous breast do I send you, nor will I suffer you to bear signs of helpful fortune, but first from my breast many a complaint will I express, sullying my grey hairs with dust and ashes, and then will I hang dusky sails to the swaying mast, so that our sorrow and burning of...
preview | full record— Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 - c. 54 B.C.)
Date: 1718 [first published 1684-1694]
"Have you not then observed how a Man's Reason (like fire, scarce visible and just going out) retires into it self, and what with inactivity and dullness, every little flitting object so flatters and endangers the extinguishing it, that there remains but some obscure indications that the Man is a...
preview | full record— Plutarch (c. 46-120)
