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Lynne Wrote:

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> Horace, I believe


You are correct - apologies


Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

Book I, epistle xviii, line 84


Virgil also includes a reference in Book 2

- Iam proximus ardet Ucalegon - now next to him Ucalegon blazes

...but Ucalegon was a friend of Priam in the Illiad [Horace] a character

that Virgil borrowed for the Aeneid [they were friends & borrowed from each other]

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