“To every man posterity gives his due honour”
Suum cuique decus posteritas rependit
Book IV, 35; Church-Brodribb translation
Annals (117)
“To give the devil his due.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 3.
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