ferebant

Updated: May 6, 2025

Now settled in London. I had been five years absent from London. sic fata ferebant. Æneid, ii. 34. It is, indeed, very characteristical of its authour, beginning with a maxim, and proceeding to illustrate. 'All excellence has a right to be recorded.

James Boswell - Life of Johnson, Volume 3 : 1776-1780