aptissima

Updated: June 24, 2025

The theory of religion would then be that the crude idea of propitiatory and conciliatory sacrifice would fall to the ground; that to use the inspired words of the old Roman poet "Aptissima quaeque dabunt Di. Carior est illis homo quam sibi;"

Arthur Christopher Benson - From a College Window

'Pro jucundis aptissima quæque dabunt di; carior est illis homo quam sibi. That thought has left me patient, if not glad, in many a bitter hour.... You are never out of my thoughts." And this letter leads me naturally to the second great principle that pervaded all his writings—"the education of individuals."

Arthur Christopher Benson - Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge : Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College