"Di tibi, si qua pios respectant numina, si quid Usquam iustitiae est et mens sibi conscia recti, Praemia digna ferant."
— Aeneid

January 1, 1970

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Lines 603–605 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald); Aeneas to Dido. — Variant translation of mens sibi conscia recti (meaning "a good conscience"): A mind conscious of its own rectitude. — Compare: Conscia mens recti famae mendacia ridet. ("The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.") Ovid, Fasti 4.311