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Friday, October 05, 2018
One's Native Land
Sidonius, Letters 3.3.1 (to Ecdicius; tr. W.B. Anderson):
The land which has begotten one rightly claims the chief place in one's affections.
summas in adfectu partes iure sibi usurpat terra quae genuit.