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The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride,
Whil'st the poor Scholar foots it by their side.

— Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)

Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores,
Sed genus species cogitur ire pedes.

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Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), I. 2. 3. 15. Quoted by Dr. Robert F. Arnold. A like saying may be found in Franciscus Floridus Sabinus—Lectiones Subcisive, Book I, Chapter I. Also John Owen—Medicus et I. C.
Work: The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621
Source quality: Secondhand citation Quoted from another book or article rather than from the original.

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Ovid, Fasti, I. 217; Amores, III, VIII. 55.

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