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Otium et reges prius et beatas perdidit urbes. Often has leisure ruined great kings and fine cities.
— Carmina, no.51.
Grammatica magistra verborum, ornatrix humani generis, quae per exercitationem pulcherrimae lectionis antiquorum nos cognoscitur iuvare consiliis. hac non utuntur barbari reges: apud legales dominos manere cognoscitur singularis. arma enim et reliqua gentes habent: sola reperitur eloquentia, quae Romanorum dominis obsecundat.
cassiodorus— Grammar is the mistress of words, the embellisher of the human race; through the practice of the noble reading of ancient authors, she helps us, we know, by her counsels. The barbarian kings do not use her; as is well known, she remains unique to lawful rulers. For the tribes possess arms and the rest; rhetoric is found in sole obedience to the lords of the Romans.
— Bk. 9, no. 21; p. 122.
Otium et reges prius et beatas perdidit urbes.
— Often has leisure ruined great kings and fine cities.LI
Brutus, quia reges eiecit, consul primus factus est; Hic, quia consules eiecit, rex postremo factus est.
— Brutus was elected consul, when he sent the kings away; Caesar sent the consuls packing, Caesar is our king today.
— Note left on a statue of Caesar in Rome, prior to the Ides of March.
— Suetonius, Divus Iulius, paragraph 80. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
Otium et reges prius et beatas perdidit urbes.
— Often has leisure ruined great kings and fine cities.
— LI
Brute sub occasu solis trans Gallica regna Insula in occeano est habitata gigantibus olim. Nunc deserta quidem gentibus apta tuis. Illa tibi fietque tuis locus aptus in aevum; Hec erit et natis altera Troia tuis, Hic de prole tua reges nascentur et ipsis Totius terrae subditus orbis erit.
— Brutus! there lies beyond the Gallic bounds
An island which the western sea surrounds,
By giants once possessed; now few remain
To bar thy entrance, or obstruct thy reign.
To reach that happy shore thy sails employ;
There fate decrees to raise a second Troy,
And found an empire in thy royal line,
Which time shall ne'er destroy, nor bounds confine.
— Bk. 1, ch. 11; p. 101.
