Thursday, May 31, 2018
Bene Qui Latuit
Paul Theroux, Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), p. 438:
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For dixit read vixit.
The phrase comes from Ovid, Tristia 3.4.25, and means more literally "He who has succeeded in staying hidden has lived well."
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Bene qui latuit bene dixit, wrote Ovid. To live well is to live unnoticed.Image of the bottom of page 438:
[....]
For dixit read vixit.
The phrase comes from Ovid, Tristia 3.4.25, and means more literally "He who has succeeded in staying hidden has lived well."
Related post: Benevixitist.
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