With tread imperial, impartial pallid Death
knocks at the doors of cottages and palaces.
[Pallida mors æquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas
Regumque turres.]
Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Odes [Carmina], Book 1, # 4, l. 13ff (1.4.13-14) (23 BC) [tr. Alexander (1999), “To Lucius Sestius”]
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With tread imperial, impartial pallid Death knocks at the doors of cottages and palaces. [Pallida mors æquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.] (Source (Latin)).WIST Quotations
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