March 14, 2011

19a. Memoria et Oblivio




Memóriam
in Themístocle
fuísse singulárem
ferunt.
Ítaque
cum ei Simónides
artem memóriae pollicerétur,
"Obliviónis," inquit, "mallem;
nam mémini étiam,
quae nolo;
oblivísci non possum,
quae volo."


TEXT SOURCE: Selections from Latin Authors for Sight-Reading, by Everett Titsworth Tomlinson (1886). This book does not have a vocabulary list in the back.

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