Saturday, October 05, 2024
The Vicissitudes of Human Fortune
Livy 7.31.6 (tr. B.O. Foster; that ... people = the Campanians):
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The Fathers were profoundly moved by the vicissitudes of human fortune, considering how that great and opulent people, famed for its luxury and pride, of whom a little while before its neighbours had sought assistance, was become so broken in spirit as to yield itself up with all its possessions to the dominion of another.
commoti patres vice fortunarum humanarum, si ille praepotens opibus populus, luxuria superbiaque clarus, a quo paulo ante auxilium finitimi petissent adeo infractos gereret animos ut se ipse suaque omnia potestatis alienae faceret.
