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  1. A quotation from Horace

    For Nature nere appointed him or me,
    Or any else, proprietors to be
    Of our own lands, though now the time is his
    To turn me out, yet his unthriftiness
    Or ignorance of tricks in law, or else
    Who e’re survives him, him at last expells,
    This Farm which now by Umbrenas name is known
    Was mine, but none can say, It is his own;
    ‘Tis thine, and mine, and his.
     
    [Nam propriae telluris erum natura nec illum
    nec me nec quemquam statuit: nos expulit ille,
    illum aut nequities aut vafri inscitia iuris,
    postremum expellet certe vivacior heres.
    nunc ager Umbreni sub nomine, nuper Ofelli
    dictus, erit nulli proprius, sed cedet in usum
    nunc mihi, nunc alii.]

    Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 2, “Quae virtus et quanta,” l. 129ff (2.2.129-135) (30 BC) [tr. A. B.; ed. Brome (1666)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/76734/

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    #impermanence #possession #property #tenancy #tentant

  2. A quotation from Horace

    For Nature nere appointed him or me,
    Or any else, proprietors to be
    Of our own lands, though now the time is his
    To turn me out, yet his unthriftiness
    Or ignorance of tricks in law, or else
    Who e’re survives him, him at last expells,
    This Farm which now by Umbrenas name is known
    Was mine, but none can say, It is his own;
    ‘Tis thine, and mine, and his.
     
    [Nam propriae telluris erum natura nec illum
    nec me nec quemquam statuit: nos expulit ille,
    illum aut nequities aut vafri inscitia iuris,
    postremum expellet certe vivacior heres.
    nunc ager Umbreni sub nomine, nuper Ofelli
    dictus, erit nulli proprius, sed cedet in usum
    nunc mihi, nunc alii.]

    Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 2, “Quae virtus et quanta,” l. 129ff (2.2.129-135) (30 BC) [tr. A. B.; ed. Brome (1666)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/76734/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #change #land #mortality #ownership#
    #impermanence #possession #property #tenancy #tentant