Nay, but we must all choose one of two things—life with liberty or death with glory.Related post: Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death.
ἀλλὰ δυεῖν θάτερον ἅπασιν αἱρετέον, ἢ βίον ἐλεύθερον ἢ θάνατον ἔνδοξον.
"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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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Live Free or Die
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 4.82.4 (speech of Brutus after the suicide of Lucretia; tr. Earnest Cary):