“Thus each by his fears adds strength to rumour, and all dread the unconfirmed dangers invented by themselves.”

Book I, line 484 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia

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Sic quisque pavendo dat vires famae, nulloque auctore malorum quae finxere timent.

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