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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:8790
AUTHOR:Plutarch (A.D. 46?–A.D. c. 120)
QUOTATION:Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Life of Pompey.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
See Garrick, Quotation 4.

He [Tiberius] upbraided Macro in no obscure and indirect terms “with forsaking the setting sun and turning to the rising.”—Tacitus: Annals, book iv. c. 47, 20. [back]
 

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