Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Woe Is Me
Claudian, The War Against Gildo 1.44-45 (tr. Maurice Platnauer):
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Woe is me, whither are fled the power of Latium and the might of Rome? To what a shadow of our former glory are we by gradual decline arrived!
ei mihi, quo Latiae vires urbisque potestas
decidit! in qualem paulatim fluximus umbram!
