The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellanies [Vol. 11]

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.

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Boston ; New York :: Houghton, Mifflin,

[1903-1904].

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"The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellanies [Vol. 11]." In the digital collection The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/4957107.0011.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.

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Page 226, note 1. Professor John H. Wright of Harvard University has kindly furnished me with the passage from Dio Cassius, xlvii. 49, where it is said of Brutus:— 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 —which he renders, "He cried out this sentiment of Heracles, 'O wretched Virtue, after all, thou art a name, but I cherished thee as a fact. Fortune's slave wast thou;' and called upon one of those with him to slay him."

Professor Wright adds that Theodorus Prodromus, a Byzantine poet of the twelfth century, said, "What Brutus says (O Virtue, etc.) I pronounce to be ignoble and unworthy of Brutus's soul." It seems very doubtful whence the Greek verses came.