Sextus Propertius Quotes
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
Propertius, Sextus. Elegies. Translated by G. P. Goold, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1990, p. 165.
The ancient Russian community of Chersonesos near Sebastopol had been rebuilt upon, land that had been graverobbed, and looted of materials of value. However, the Countess and other Russian and world intellectuals lobbied the Czar for Royal Protection of the archeological site. Not unlike the dilemma faced by national and local government even today, the Czar protected the site which is the only reason we have this marvelous resource still as a rich laboratory today. However, the Czar like more modern political leaders acted not from an intellectual conviction of the value to the archeology or the “treasures” which might be found, but from the avoidance of world reputation as “barbarians.”
For Tamil Indians the Tirukkural is sacred scripture. There is no archeological evidence of his existence—only his literature. The date therefore is very uncertain and might be as early as the 8th century BC or as late as the 2nd century BC.
His interviewer had asked him what he, as a cultural critic and a political essayist, thought of Donald Trump’s campaigning style.
Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age. He was born around 50–45 BC in Assisium and died shortly after 15 BC.
