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Quintus Ennius

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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
QUINTUS ENNIUS O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - ...
QUINTUS ENNIUS Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
QUINTUS ENNIUS He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
QUINTUS ENNIUS They hate whom they fear.
QUINTUS ENNIUS He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
QUINTUS ENNIUS No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
QUINTUS ENNIUS No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.
QUINTUS ENNIUS One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the...
QUINTUS ENNIUS Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead. [Lat., Quem metuont oderunt, quem qui...
QUINTUS ENNIUS May his body rest free from evil. [Lat., Corpus requiescat a malis.]
QUINTUS ENNIUS Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fr...
QUINTUS ENNIUS He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp fro...
QUINTUS ENNIUS Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and f...
QUINTUS ENNIUS Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
QUINTUS ENNIUS Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur'

[A true friend is a friend when in difficulty]
QUINTUS ENNIUS They hate whom they fear
QUINTUS ENNIUS He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within
QUINTUS ENNIUS Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed
QUINTUS ENNIUS No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars
QUINTUS ENNIUS To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen
QUINTUS ENNIUS He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise
QUINTUS ENNIUS O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - ...
QUINTUS ENNIUS Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fr...
QUINTUS ENNIUS The idle mind knows not what it wants.
ENNIUS The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte immine...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sed...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. [Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subes...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum inc...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mor...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits eternal. [Lat.,...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS But few prize honour more than money.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. [Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntu...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS During war, the laws are silent.
QUINTUS TULLIUS CICERO Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
QUINTUS TULLIUS CICERO Fear makes men believe the worst.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS TERTULLIANUS Out of the frying pan into the fire.
QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS TERTULLIANUS To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unf...
QUINTUS FABIUS MAXIMUS A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens. [La...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici, Occa...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indic...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. [Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. [Lat., Et ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. [Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pec...
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HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]
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HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) A crafty knave needs no broker.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Every man cannot go to Corinthum. [Lat., Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum.]
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HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect. [Lat., Quid velit et possit ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing. [Lat., Nil cupientium Nudus castra peti.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition). [Lat., Dens Theonia.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous m...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) A eulogist of past times. [Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? [Lat., Patriae quis exul se quoque fug...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand w...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of th...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) One man with courage makes a majority.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyra...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) What advice you give, be short. [Lat., Quidquid praecipies esto brevis.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) I court not the votes of the fickle mob. [Lat., Non ego ventosae plebis suffragia venor.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) What's well begun, is half done. [Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness? [Lat., Cui flavam religas comam Simple...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Humble things become the humble. [Lat., Parvum parva decent.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. [Lat., Male verum examinat omnis Corr...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience. [Lat., Durum! sed le...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer. [Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. [Lat., Ira furor brev...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. [Lat.,...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him. (That is: he has hay on his horns, showing he is dan...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Punishment follows close on crime. [Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas Sortitur ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Riches either serve or govern the possessor. [Lat., Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? [Lat., Quis scit, an adjiciant h...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less qua...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natur...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Mad in the judgment of the mob, sane, perhaps, in yours. [Lat., Demens Judicio vulgi, sanus fo...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby t...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wa...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. [Lat., Vitanda est improba--desidia.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
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HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. [Lat., Ridiculum acr...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Bolt from the blue.
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HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome. [Lat., Omitte mirari beatae F...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Calig...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultim...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugn...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of th...
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence ...
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus...
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks. [Lat., Intererit multum Davusne loquat...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. [Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) I teach that all are men are mad. [Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unar...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) You will swim without cork (without help). [Lat., Nabis sine cortice.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest. [Lat., Quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. [Lat., Tua res agitur, pari...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again. [Lat., Vestigia t...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful. [Lat., Oderunt hilarem tristes tristemqu...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. [Lat., C...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of yourself. [Lat., Quid rides?] ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat....
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Drawing is the true test of art.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. [Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Plant no other tree before the vine. [Lat., Nullam vare, sacra vite prius arborem.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorro...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [Lat., Aequum es...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved? [Lat., Quis desiderio s...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrant...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, in...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat....
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi....
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. [Lat.,...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna. [Lat., Ardentem frigidus Aetnam insiluit.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for thems...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) It is grievous to be caught. [Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth....
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) I strike the stars with by sublime head. [Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt. [Lat., Hi...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious. [Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolo...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skie...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. [Lat., Ficta voluptati...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) They converse as those who know that God hears. [Lat., Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire...
QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS TERTULLIAN Anger is a short madness.
QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS HORACE I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am th...
LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR II I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tor...
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour? [Lat., Quid datur a divis felici...
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) A day without laughter is a day wasted.
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs. [Lat., Suus quoque attr...
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed. [Fr., La plus perdue d...
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. [Lat., Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.]
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make ter...
LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR II The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the...
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) When a nation has just emerged from the throes of a great civil warfare, where section was arrayed a...
LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR II It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, an...
LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR II The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has...
LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR II I formed, in early life, two purposes to which I have inflexibly adhered, under some very strong pre...
LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR II The center of all my enjoyments is the home wherein are my wife and children, and I have no wish to ...
LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR II