VS 47 - I have anticipated thee, Fortune, and entrenched ...
I have anticipated thee, Fortune, and entrenched myself against all thy secret attacks. And we will not give ourselves up as captives to thee or to any other circumstance; but when it is time for us to go, spitting contempt on life and on those who here vainly cling to it, we will leave life crying aloud in a glorious triumph-song that we have lived well.
Listen to the latest Lucretius Today Podcast! Episode 224 is now available. To mark the 20th of April, here is a special episode - a reading of the 1429 letter of Cosma Raimondi.
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