"Cultivate virtue; after death she lives, And by his virtues only man survives."
— Matthias Borbonius

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In Notes and Queries (vol. vi. 79 and 245, and vol. x. 362), R. Pierpoint refers us to Mathias Borbonius, Dictum Tiberii—one of a series of mottoes for various emperors—in connexion with the motto of the Earls of Shannon (Boyle), where the words are given in reverse order: Vivit post funera virtus.—"Virtue survives death."Cf. Euripides, Fragment 722:Αρετή δὲ, κἄν θάνη τις, ουκ απόλλυται, ζῇ δ᾿ οὐκέτ ὄντος σώματος κακοῖσι δὲ ἅπαντα φροῦδα συνθανὀνθ᾽ ὑπὸ χθονός.Virtue’s not killed at death. The bo

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Matthias Borbonius

1566 – 1629

Matthias Borbonius (1566–1629) was a Neo-Latin writer of Bohemian origin.

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