Sunday, June 19, 2022
Swords into Plowshares, Spears into Pruning Hooks
Claudian, Against Eutropius 2.194-196 (tr. Maurice Platnauer):
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Go then, busy thyself with the plough, cleave the soil, bid thy followers lay aside their swords and sweat o'er the harrow.
i nunc, devotus aratris
scinde solum positoque tuos mucrone sodales
ad rastros sudare doce.
