But the fame my genius has won shall not perish with time: genius claims a glory that knows no death.
[At non ingenio quaestium nomen ab aevo
Excidet: ingenio stat sine morte decus.]
Propertius (50–16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]
Elegies, Book 3, Elegy 2, l. 25ff (3.2.25–26) [tr. Goold (Loeb) (1990)]
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Propertius - Elegies, Book 3, Elegy 2, l. 25ff (3.2.25–26) [tr. Goold (Loeb) (1990)] | WIST Quotations
But the fame my genius has won shall not perish with time: genius claims a glory that knows no death. [At non ingenio quaestium nomen ab aevo Excidet: ingenio stat sine morte decus.WIST Quotations
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