Thursday, September 8, 2011

New Latin Quote T-Shirt: O Tempora! O Mores!

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A new t-shirt with a Ciceronian slant:
Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives! aye, he comes even into the senate. He takes a part in the public deliberations; he is watching and marking down and checking off for slaughter every individual among us. And we, gallant men that we are, think that we are doing our duty to the republic if we keep out of the way of his frenzied attacks.
-Cicero Against Catiline (tr. Yonge and London)
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