Repulsae Nescia
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It is found in Horace: Odes, III., 2, 17.[2] The following passage:
Virtus repulsae nescia sordidae
Intaminatis fulget honoribus,
Nec sumit aut ponit securis
Arbitrio popularis aurae.
was translated by Conington[3] as:
True Virtue never knows defeat:
Her robes she keeps unsullied still;
Nor take, nor quits, her curule seat,
To please a people's veering will.