#mortality — Public Fediverse posts
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With tread imperial, impartial pallid Death
knocks at the doors of cottages and palaces.
[Pallida mors æquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas
Regumque turres.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Odes [Carmina], Book 1, # 4, l. 13ff (1.4.13-14) (23 BC) [tr. Alexander (1999), “To Lucius Sestius”]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/69269/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #death #equality #mortality #poor #powerful #rich #wealthy
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With tread imperial, impartial pallid Death
knocks at the doors of cottages and palaces.
[Pallida mors æquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas
Regumque turres.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Odes [Carmina], Book 1, # 4, l. 13ff (1.4.13-14) (23 BC) [tr. Alexander (1999), “To Lucius Sestius”]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/69269/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #death #equality #mortality #poor #powerful #rich #wealthy
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With tread imperial, impartial pallid Death
knocks at the doors of cottages and palaces.
[Pallida mors æquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas
Regumque turres.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Odes [Carmina], Book 1, # 4, l. 13ff (1.4.13-14) (23 BC) [tr. Alexander (1999), “To Lucius Sestius”]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/69269/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #death #equality #mortality #poor #powerful #rich #wealthy