“We're slow to believe what wounds us.”
Tarde quae credita laedunt credimus.
II, 9-10; translation by A. S. Kline
Heroides (The Heroines)
“Adrastus is amazed thereat and slow to believe.”
Source: Thebaid, Book VIII, Line 150
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