Necessity’s impartial law
For every rank is still the same,
One lot for high and low to draw:
The urn hath room for every name.
[Aequa lege Necessitas
Sortitur insignes et imos;
Omne capax movet urna nomen.]
Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Odes [Carmina], Book 3, # 1, l. 14ff (3.1.14–16) (23 BC) [tr. Gladstone (1894)]
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Horace - Odes [Carmina], Book 3, # 1, l. 14ff (3.1.14–16) (23 BC) [tr. Gladstone (1894)] | WIST Quotations
Necessity's impartial law For every rank is still the same, One lot for high and low to draw: The urn hath room for every name. [Aequa lege Necessitas Sortitur insignes et imos; Omne capax movet urna nomen.] (Source (Latin)).WIST Quotations
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