“Then empty rumour to well-grounded fear gave strength.”

— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , book Pharsalia

Book I, line 469 (tr. E. Ridley).
Pharsalia

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Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores.

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Roman poet 39–65

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