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Sidonius Apollinaris Quotes

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Death may overwhelm them, but not fear; unconquerable they stand their ground, and their courage well-nigh outlives their lives.

These are the men whom even they fear who are themselves feared.

Driven away by barbarian thrumming the Muse has spurned the six-footed exercise ever since she beheld these patrons seven feet high.

How dismal the necessity of birth! how miserable the necessity of living! how hard the necessity of death!

Why – even supposing I had the skill – do you bid me compose a song dedicated to Venus the lover of Fescennine mirth, placed as I am among long-haired hordes, having to endure German speech, praising oft with wry face the song of the gluttonous Burgundian who spreads rancid butter on his hair?

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