Urna Quotes
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Aequa lege Necessitas Sortitur insignes et imos; Omne capax movet urna nomen.
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Jacet ecce Tibullus; Vix manet e toto parva quod urna capit.
— Here lies Tibullus; of all that he was there scarcely remains enough to fill a small urn.
— Ovid, Amorum (16 BC), Book III, 9, 39; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 232.
Aequa lege Necessitas Sortitur insignes et imos; Omne capax movet urna nomen.
— Death takes the mean man with the proud;
The fatal urn has room for all.
— Book III, ode i, line 14 (translated by John Conington).
