Sunday, June 12, 2022
War and Peace
Cicero, Letters to Atticus 7.14.2 (Cales, 25 January 49; tr. D.R. Shackleton Bailey):
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I continue to urge peace. Even an unjust peace is better than the most just of wars against one's countrymen. But that's as fortune wills.
equidem ad pacem hortari non desino; quae vel iniusta utilior est quam iustissimum bellum cum civibus. sed haec ut fors tulerit.
