"Frustra ego te laudo, frustra me, Zoile, laedis: Nemo mihi credit, Zoile, nemo tibi."
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Hoyt Hopewell Hudson, The Epigram in the English Renaissance (Princeton UP, 1947), p. 115, identifies the original as itself a translation, from the seventh Epistola of Libanius, Lebanii Opera, ed. R. Foerster (Leipzig, 1921), vol. x, p. 3: Σὺ μὲν ἡμᾶς εἶπας κακῶς, ἡμεις δε καλῶς. ἀλλ᾽ οὔτε σοί τις οὔτ᾽ ἐμοὶ πείσεται.
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George Buchanan
George Buchanan (Scots Gaelic: Seòras Bochanan; February 1506 – 28 September 1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar.
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