"Sta, viator; heroem calcas." If I had found this epitaph on an ancient monument, I should at once have… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Sta, viator; heroem calcas." If I had found this epitaph on an ancient monument, I should at once have guessed it was modern; for there is nothing so common among us as heroes, but among the ancients they were rare. Instead of saying a man was a hero, they would have said what he had done to gain that name.

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