But like a general, a host displays
his genius best under disaster.
[Sed convivatoris uti ducis ingenium res
Adversae nudare solent, celare secundae.]
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 8, “Ut Nasidieni,” l. 73ff (2.8.73-74) (30 BC) [tr. Matthews (2002)]
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/1956/
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Today's poem,
- by Sarah Cabrera
https://hephaestusallday.weebly.com/when-hephaestus-fell.html
sharing your burdens
affords opportunity
to become myself
Everyone has different responses to adversity. Here's a post by an old friend that illuminated mine.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2021/04/responses-to-adversity
