Tuesday, February 28, 2023

 

Live Free or Die

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 4.82.4 (speech of Brutus after the suicide of Lucretia; tr. Earnest Cary):
Nay, but we must all choose one of two things—life with liberty or death with glory.

ἀλλὰ δυεῖν θάτερον ἅπασιν αἱρετέον, ἢ βίον ἐλεύθερον ἢ θάνατον ἔνδοξον.
Related post: Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 10:16 AM


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