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Not bound to swear allegiance to any master, wherever the wind takes me I travel as a… — Horace

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Not bound to swear allegiance to any master, wherever the wind takes me I travel as a visitor.

In the original Latin

Nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri, quo me cumque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes.

Horace
Epistles · 20 BC
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WanderingTravelFreedom
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20 BCClassical antiquity
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Horace
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Current citation
Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 1.
Original citation
Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 1.

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