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Quotation from The Odes and Carmen Saeculare by Horace
“And now 'tis done: more durable than brass My monument shall be, and raise its head O'er royal pyramids:”
The Odes and Carmen Saeculare, Book III, Ode 30 (Exegi monumentum), trans. John Conington (1863)
The closing boast of the first collection: his poetry will outlast monuments of stone and metal.
Citation: "And now 'tis done: more durable than brass My monument shall be, and raise its head O'er royal pyramids:" — Horace, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare, Book III, Ode 30 (Exegi monumentum), trans. John Conington (1863). (id horace-odes-q6)
