Tuesday, April 13, 2021

 

Hypocrisy of a Laudator Temporis Acti

Horace, Satires 2.7.22-24 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough):
You praise the fortune and manners of the men of old; and yet, if on a sudden some god were for taking you back to those days, you would refuse every time...

                                                         laudas
fortunam et mores antiquae plebis, et idem,
si quis ad illa deus subito te agat, usque recuses...

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 2:03 PM


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