Ancient Unlearned Wisdom
Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant.
They make a wilderness and call it peace
---Tacitus, reporting the words of Calgalus
posted by Merle F. Allshouse at 2:08 PM
Thursday, July 27, 2006
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1 Comments:
Tacitus said some shrewd things. He thought that the (Roman) philosophers were skeptical of traditional religion or indifferent to it, that the political leaders used it for their own purposes, and that the people (the populace) were fervent in their devotion to it.
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