Monday, February 20, 2023
A Refuge
Cicero, Letters to His Friends 7.20.2 (tr. W. Glynn Williams):
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But it seems to me eminently desirable, especially in these days, to have somewhere to flee to,—in the first place, a city where the inhabitants are devoted to you, and secondly, a house of your own and on your own estate, and that in some secluded, salubrious, and beautiful spot...
sed inprimis opportunum videtur, his praesertim temporibus, habere perfugium, primum eorum urbem, quibus carus sis, deinde tuam domum tuosque agros; eaque remoto, salubri, amoeno loco...