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A quotation from Horace

But like a general, a host displays
his genius best under disaster.
 
[Sed convivatoris uti ducis ingenium res
Adversae nudare solent, celare secundae.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 8 “Ut Nasidieni,” l. 73ff (2.8.73-74) (30 BC) [tr. Matthews (2002)]

But like a general, a host displays his genius best under disaster. - Horace

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Horace - Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 8 "Ut Nasidieni," l. 73ff (2.8.73-74) (30 BC) [tr. Matthews (2002)] | WIST Quotations

But like a general, a host displays his genius best under disaster. [Sed convivatoris uti ducis ingenium res Adversae nudare solent, celare secundae.
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