“I have made a monument more lasting than bronze.”
Exegi monumentum aere perennius
Book III, ode xxx, line 1
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
“The monument outlasting bronze was promised well by bards of old.”
The Ancient And Modern Muses
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