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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 638
AUTHOR: Lucan (39–65)
QUOTATION: I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.
(Coniunx est mihi, sunt nati; dedimus tot pignora fatis.)
ATTRIBUTION: LUCAN, Pharsalia, book 7, line 662, Lucan, trans. J. D. Duff, pp. 418–19 (1928).
SUBJECTS: Fortune
 


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