Latin
Quotations B

 

Barbarus hic ego sum
I am the barbarian here [written in exile on the Black Sea]
Ovid, Tristia 5/10:37
"where the stupid Getae simply laugh at Latin words"
compare the imagined exile of "Confucius" in Analects *9:14

Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat
It was rather that war ended, than that peace began
Tacitus, Historiae 4:1

Bellum omnium contra omnes
A war of all against all
Thomas Hobbes
for the earlier saying of Plautus, see at Homo

Bis dat qui cito dat
He gives twice who gives promptly
Publilius Syrus

 

 

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