Thankless country, thou shalt not possess even my bones!
Ingrata patria, ne ossa quidem mea habes.
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Epitaph ordered by Scipio to be placed upon his tomb in Campania, as reported in Valerius Maximus Factorvm et dictorvm memorabilivm libri Novem, Lib. V, cap. iii; translation from Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men (1887), p. 477