Te moneant, lector, tot in uno funera libro,
Tempore quod certo tu quoque funus eris
Let so many funeral tombs in one book remind you, reader, that at a certain moment you too will be entombed.
Nathan Chytraeus, 1594 (In: Variorum In Europam Itinerum Deliciae (Herborn, Christoph Rab: 1594), âTo The Readerâ **)
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Nec sane viri magni pluribus dici opus habent, cum ipsi sibi elogium sint,
et misera profecto virtus illa est, quae sepulchrali inscriptione opus habet, ut perennet.
Indeed, great men donât need many words to be said, as they are an epitaph to themselves,
and for sure this is miserable virtue, which needs a sepulchral inscription to endure.
Alfonso Chacón, 1601 (In: Vitae Et Res Gestae Pontificum Romanorum ⦠(Rome, Filippo And Antonio De Rubeis: 1677) III, 392)
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