Tuesday, May 2, 2023

All things change their owners

From Horace, Epistolae, II; 2; 174, as quoted by the Shropshire yeoman and antiquary Richard Gough, 1701 in his The History of Myddle.  

Nil proprium cuiquam: puncto quod mobilis horae 
Nunc prece, nunc petio, nunc vi, nunc suprema 
Permutat Dominos et cedit in altera jura.

[Nothing is truly the property of any man: at any moment in the passing hour, whether by entreaty, by purchase, by force, by the final extremity of death, all things change their owners and become, by oath, the right of another.]

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