Note 439 — Chapter VIII · LATIN POETRY
Reading edition
See Delitiæ Poetarum Italorum, second part, pp. 713-761. The following couplet on the death of Cesare Borgia is celebrated:—
Aut nihil aut Cæsar vult dici Borgia; quidni? Cum simul et Cæsar possit et esse nihil.