Note 275 — Chapter XVII
Reading edition
"'Borgia Cæsar eram, factis et nomine Cæsar; Aut nihil aut Cæsar,' dixit: utrumque fuit."
The idea was thus repeated by Sannazaro:—
"Aut nihil aut Cæsar vult dici Borgia: quid ni? Cum simul et Cæsar possit, et esse nihil." Cæsar or nothing, Borgia fain would be; Cæsar and nothing, both in him we see.