He who plans death for his foe should know well that a like death is planned for himself to share in.
[Qui alteri exitium parat,
Eum scire oportet sibi paratam pestem ut participet parem.]
Ennius (239–169 BC) Roman poet, writer [Quintus Ennius]
Hectoris Lytra [The Ransom of Hector], fragment [tr. Warmington (Loeb) (1913)]
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Ennius - Hectoris Lytra [The Ransom of Hector], fragment [tr. Warmington (Loeb) (1913)] | WIST Quotations
He who plans death for his foe should know well that a like death is planned for himself to share in. [Qui alteri exitium parat, Eum scire oportet sibi paratam pestem ut participet parem.WIST Quotations
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