Note 341 — Chapter III · THE MODERN IDEA OF FAME.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
‘Nam et veteres nostri tales aut divos aut æternâ memoriâ dignos non immerito prædicabant, quum virtus summa sanctitatis sit consocia et pari ematur pretio.’ What follows is most characteristic: ‘Hos itaque meo facili judicio æternos facio.’