"Abolenda ignominia" in Livy.

Livy reporting the speech of a soldier (Ab Urbe Condita 25.6): Non solum a patria procul Italiaque sed ab hoste etiam relegati sumus, ubi senescamus in exsilio ne qua spes, ne qua occasio abolendæ ignominiæ, ne qua placandæ civium iræ, ne qua denique bene moriendi sit. Not only were we sent far away from our […]

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