"Occupavi te, Fortuna, atque cepi omnisque aditus tuos interclusi, ut ad me adspirare non posses."
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I have prevented you, Fortune; I have caught you, and cut off every access, so that you cannot possibly reach me. — Attributed to Metrodorus by Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, V, IX, 27, as translated by W.H. Main, Tusculan Debates, Pickering, 1824, p. 237.
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Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the younger)
Metrodorus of Lampsacus (331/0 – 278/7 BC) was a Greek philosopher of the Epicurean school.
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