Monday, February 06, 2023
A Law of Nature
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1.5.2 (tr. Earnest Cary):
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By an universal law of Nature, which time cannot destroy, it is ordained that superiors shall ever govern their inferiors.
φύσεως γὰρ δὴ νόμος ἅπασι κοινός, ὃν οὐδεὶς καταλύσει χρόνος, ἄρχειν ἀεὶ τῶν ἡττόνων τοὺς κρείττονας.
