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Quote from Lucanus,


"Ignorantque datos, ne quisquam serviat, enses."

"And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery."


By:

Lucanus (more quotes by Lucanus or books by/about Lucanus)


[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus] (A.D. 39-65) Roman poet

Source:

De Bello Civili (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Loeb Classical Library, 1988), IV, 579, p. 216

Categories:

Arms, Defense, Slavery

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