“Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona” (Horace). You are not the first great man that ever lived, though you boast so mightily. Our own age does not monopolise the right of merit.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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