Or don't you know that ... once they were immigrants without a country or parents; they have been established as a plague upon the whole world; nothing human or divine prevents them from robbing and exterminating allies and friends, people far away and nearby, the impoverished and the powerful.
an ignoras ... convenas olim sine patria, parentibus, pesti conditos orbis terrarum, quibus non humana ulla neque divina obstant quin socios amicos, procul iuxta sitos, inopes potentisque trahant excindant.
"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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Monday, July 29, 2024
A Plague on the Whole World
Sallust, Histories, fragment 69.17 Maurenbrecher (letter of Mithridates VI of Pontus to Arsaces of Parthia about the Romans; tr. William W. Batstone):