I am scaling a great height, but hope of glory gives me strength: a crown plucked from an easy summit brings no pleasure.
[Magnum iter ascendo; sed dat mihi gloria vires;
non iuvat e facili lecta corona iugo.]
Propertius (50–16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]
Elegies, Book 4, Elegy 10, l. 3ff (4.10.3–4) [tr. Goold (Loeb) (1990)]
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Propertius - Elegies, Book 4, Elegy 10, l. 3ff (4.10.3–4) [tr. Goold (Loeb) (1990)] | WIST Quotations
I am scaling a great height, but hope of glory gives me strength: a crown plucked from an easy summit brings no pleasure. [Magnum iter ascendo; sed dat mihi gloria vires; non iuvat e facili lecta corona iugo.WIST Quotations
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