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The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks. — St. Jerome

Letter

The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks.

In the original Latin

Romanus orbis ruit et tamen cervix nostra erecta non flectitur.

St. Jerome
396
★ 3.7
Provenance
Current citation
Saint Jerome. "Letter LX." Select Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 16.
Original citation
Saint Jerome. Letter to Heliodorus. c. 396, sect. 16.

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