Thursday, November 1, 2018
Daily Dose
From A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs, by James Laughlin
THE SMART MAN
That old know-it-all Cicero said that
the wicked flourish like a green bay
tree, and that an old love pinches like
a crab. A smart man but nobody liked him
much and Augustus had him executed.
Labels:
Cicero,
Daily Dose,
James Laughlin,
poetry,
Quotations,
Rome
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