Take some thought of your ancestors and not be negligent of the piety due to them

Take some thought of your ancestors and not be negligent of the piety due to them. Isocrates. Plataicus. Speech 14. Section 60.


Portrait of Antinous (112–130 CE) as a priest of the imperial cult. Found in Cyrene, Libya, now at The Louvre in Paris, France courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Marie-Lan Nguyen (Jastrow).

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