Friday, April 03, 2020
Alluring Vices
Tacitus, Agricola 21.3 (tr. M. Hutton, rev. R.M. Ogilvie):
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And little by little the Britons went astray into alluring vices: to the promenade, the bath, the well-appointed dinner table. The simple natives gave the name of "culture" to this factor of their slavery.
paulatimque discessum ad delenimenta vitiorum, porticus et balineas et conviviorum elegantiam. idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset.
