opitulari

Updated: January 13, 2026

Pericles answered one of his dearest friends, who had solicited him on a case of life and death, to take an equivocal oath for his preservation: Debeo amicis opitulari, sed usque ad Deos . Friendship herself must place her last and boldest step on this side the altar.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Biographia Literaria