Maxioms by Ovid (publius Ovidius Naso)
Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
[Lat., Aere non certo corpora languor habet.]
Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
[Lat., Aere non certo corpora languor habet.]
Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of
gold; by gold love is procured.
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Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of
gold; by gold love is procured.
[Lat., Aurea nunc vere sunt saecula; plurimus auto
Venit honos; auro concilatur amor.]
Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of
fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something read more
Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of
fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something
to what he has heard.
[Lat., Hi narrata ferunt alio; mensuraque ficti
Crescit et auditus aliquid novus adjicit auctor.]
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to
approach the place of danger.
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to
approach the place of danger.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
[Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.]
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
[Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.]
