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		<title>Horace -- Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep.  1 &#8220;To Maecenas,&#8221; l.  60ff (1.1.60-61) (20 BC) [tr. Martin (1881)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be this your wall of brass &#8212; no secret sin, To pale the cheek and rack the heart within! [Hic murus aeneus esto, nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa.] (Source (Latin)). Other translations: Not to be giltye or war wan at anye falte at all, A bulwarke that, to beare all bruntes, be that the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Be this your wall of brass &#8212; no secret sin,<br />
To pale the cheek and rack the heart within!</p>
<p><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><em>[Hic murus aeneus esto,<br />
nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa.]</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<br><b>Horace</b> (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]<br><i>Epistles [Epistularum, Letters]</i>, Book 1, ep.  1 &#8220;To Maecenas,&#8221; l.  60ff (1.1.60-61) (20 BC) [tr. Martin (1881)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/worksofhorace02horauoft/page/266/mode/2up?q=%22wall+of+brass%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0539%3Abook%3D1%3Apoem%3D1#:~:text=hic%20murus%20aeneus%20esto%2C%0Anil%20conscire%20sibi%2C%20nulla%20pallescere%20culpa.">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>Not to be giltye or war wan at anye falte at all,<br>
A bulwarke that, to beare all bruntes, be that the brasen wall.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A03670.0001.001/1:7?rgn=div1;view=fulltext#:~:text=Not%20tobe%20giltye,the%20brasen%20wall.">Drant</a> (1567)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Be this a wall of Brass, to have within<br>
No black accuser, harbour no pale sin.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=eebo;c=eebo;idno=a44478.0001.001;node=A44478.0001.001:8;seq=1;rgn=div1;view=text#:~:text=Be%20this%20a,no%20pale%20sin.">Fanshawe</a>; ed. Brome (1666)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Be this thy Guard, and this thy strong defence,<br>
A vertuous Heart, and unstain'd Innocence;<br>
Not to be conscious of a shameful sin:<br>
Nor yet look pale for Scarlet Crimes within.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=eebo;c=eebo;idno=a44471.0001.001;node=A44471.0001.001:8;seq=1;rgn=div1;view=text#:~:text=Be%20this%20thy,Scarlet%20Crimes%20within.">Creech</a> (1684)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>True, conscious Honour is to feel no sin,<br>
He ’s arm'd without that’s innocent within;<br>
Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_First_Epistle_of_the_First_Book_of_H/6VwJAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22innocent%20within%22">Pope</a> (1737), ll. 93-95]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Be this thy brazen bulwark of defence, <br>
Still to preserve thy conscious innocence, <br>
Nor e'er turn pale with guilt.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresepistlesi00hora/page/166/mode/2up?q=%22brazen+bulwark%22">Francis</a> (1747)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Be good, then, and be great;<br>
This be your tower of strength, your throne of state;<br>
To keep your heart unconscious of a sin,<br>
And feel no goadings of remorse within!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epodes_Satires_and_Epistles_of_Horac/TPgDAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22be%20good%20then%22">Howes</a> (1845)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Let this be a [man’s] brazen wall, to be conscious of no ill, to turn pale with no guilt.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_works_of_Horace/First_Book_of_Epistles#:~:text=Let%20this%20be%20a%20%5Bman%E2%80%99s%5D%20brazen%20wall%2C%20to%20be%20conscious%20of%20no%20ill%2C%20to%20turn%20pale%20with%20no%20guilt.">Smart/Buckley</a> (1853)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Be this your wall of brass, your coat of mail,<br>
A guileless heart, a cheek no crime turns pale.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Satires,_Epistles_%26_Art_of_Poetry_of_Horace/Ep1-1#:~:text=Be%20this%20your%20wall%20of%20brass%2C%20your%20coat%20of%20mail%2C%0AA%20guileless%20heart%2C%20a%20cheek%20no%20crime%20turns%20pale.">Conington</a> (1874)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Let this be a wall of brass around you -- "Not to be conscious of crime, or of any fault which spreads paleness over the countenance."<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Works_of_Horace/-f8pAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22wall%20of%20brass%22">Elgood</a> (1893)]  </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Be this our wall of bronze, to have no guilt at heart, no wrongdoing to turn us pale.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresepistlesa00horauoft/page/254/mode/2up?q=%22wall+of+bronze%22">Fairclough</a> (Loeb) (1926)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>And this bronze wall should be ours: to let no shame <br>
Steal across our faces, no guilt steal into our hearts.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresanndepist0000hora/page/166/mode/2up?q=%22and+this+bronze+wall%22">Palmer Bovie</a> (1959)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Make this your barrier of bronze,<br>
that no crime burdens you, no guilt has turned you pale.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/horacessatiresep0000hora/page/52/mode/2up?q=%22barrier+of+bronze%22">Fuchs</a> (1977)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Let a man stand<br>
Behind this bronze wall:<br>
Never guilty,<br>
Never pale with sin, and fear<br>
Of sin.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/essentialhoraceo0000hora/page/198/mode/2up?q=%22let+a+man+stand%22">Raffel</a> (1983)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Let this be our defense: not to have any <br>
Wrongdoing on our conscience to worry over.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/epistlesofhorace0000hora/page/6/mode/2up?q=%22let+this+be+our%22">Ferry</a> (2001)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">So let this be your wall of brass:<br>
to have nothing on your conscience, nothing to give you a guilty pallor.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresofhoracep00hora/page/78/mode/2up?q=%22so+let+this+be+your%22">Rudd</a> (2005 ed.)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Let that be your wall of bronze,<br>
To be free of guilt, with no wrongs to cause you pallor.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/HoraceEpistlesBkIEpI.php#anchor_Toc98156302:~:text=Let%20that%20be,cause%20you%20pallor.">Kline</a> (2015)]</blockquote><br>

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