Sunday, November 27, 2022

 

Old and New

Tacitus, Annals 11.24.7 (speech of the Emperor Claudius; tr. J.C. Yardley):
Senators, everything that is now believed to be really ancient was once new.

omnia, patres conscripti, quae nunc vetustissima creduntur, nova fuere.



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