Sunday, September 01, 2024
To the Rescue
Livy 5.3.6 (speech of Appius Claudius; tr. B.O. Foster):
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Indeed they are like quack-salvers seeking employment, since they desire that there should always be some disease in the body politic, that there may be something which you may call them in to cure.
sic hercule tamquam artifices improbi opus quaerunt; quippe semper aegri aliquid esse in re publica volunt, ut sit ad cuius curationem a vobis adhibeantur.
