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Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa æstimat.
cicero— The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.
— Cicero, Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comœdo, X. 29.
Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa æstimat.
— The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.
— Cicero, Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comœdo, X. 29.
Igitur rursum miserae mittentes epistolas reliquiae ad Agitium Romanae potestatis virum, hoc modo loquentes: "Agitio ter consuli gemitus Britannorum"; et post pauca querentes: "repellunt barbari ad mare, repellit mare ad barbaros; inter haec duo genera funerum aut iugulamur aut mergimur".
— Translation: Again, therefore, the wretched remnant, sending to Aetius, a powerful Roman citizen, address him as follow:—"To Aetius, now consul for the third time: the groans of the Britons". And again a little further, thus:—"The barbarians drive us to the sea; the sea throws us back on the barbarians: thus two modes of death await us, we are either slain or drowned".
— Section 20
— These "Groans of the Britons" were sent to the Roman military leader Flavius Aetius in Gaul, in response to the invasion of Britain by the Angles and Saxons.
