secretosque

Updated: May 29, 2025

He saw, beside, that the commonwealth was lost without resource; the heads of it destroyed; the senate, new moulded, grown degenerate, and either bought off or thrusting their own necks into the yoke out of fear of being forced. "Secretosque pios; his dantem jura Catonem."

John Dryden - Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry