Monday, March 03, 2025

 

Nobility

Juvenal 8.30-32 (tr. Peter Green):
                                                 Who'd claim high nobility
for one who falls short of his breeding, whose only distinction
is a famous name?

         quis enim generosum dixerit hunc qui
indignus genere et praeclaro nomine tantum
insignis?



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