And the name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself wholesome, but between peace and servitude the difference is great. Peace is tranquil liberty, servitude the last of all evils, one to be repelled, not only by war but even by death.
et nomen pacis dulce est et ipsa res salutaris, sed inter pacem et servitutem plurimum interest. pax est tranquilla libertas; servitus malorum omnium postremum, non modò bello, sed morte etiam repellendum.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Friday, June 04, 2021
Peace and Servitude
Cicero, Philippics 2.44.113 (tr. Walter C.A. Ker):