"Neither walls, theatres, porches, nor senseless equipage, make States; but men who are able to rely upon themselves."
— Aelius Aristides

January 1, 1970

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Vol. 1 (ed. Samuel Jebb, 1722), translated by Arthur W. Austin, The Woman and the Queen: A Ballad, and Other Specimens of Verse (Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, 1875) p. 90