Quote#Nature
Greece and the world are Rome's: her stars prevail
Quote byJohn Nichol · 1833–1894
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Hannibal (1873), Silanus, V, ix.
English (original)
Greece and the world are Rome's: her stars prevail; But our complexion shifts not with the gale. When ONE against a NATION plays his life, He bears from hosts the glory of the strife: Until the hero's godlike race be run I shall be loyal to the setting sun.
— John Nichol
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