Favent Panno

They Cheer for a Rag

C. Plinius miratur tot milia virorum tam pueriliter pilam currentem spectare.

Pliny the Younger marvels that so many thousands of grown men watch a ball being chased with such childish passion.

C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus

Consul, legatus BithyniaeConsul, governor of Bithynia · PRINCIPATVS

a.d. V Id. Oct. · MMDCCLXXIX a.u.c.

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Favent PannoThey Cheer for a Rag

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LATINEANGLICE

Nunc favent panno, pannum amant; et si in ipso cursu medioque certamine hic color illuc, ille huc transferatur, studium favorque transibit. Factio Albata Matritensis iterum vicit; nemo meliorem factus est.

It is the colours they cheer for, the colours they love; and if, in the middle of the race, the colours were swapped, their passion and their favour would cross over with them. The Whites of Madrid have won again; no one is the better for it.

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FONTES ANTIQVIANCIENT SOURCES

Plin. Ep. IX.6nunc favent panno, pannum amant.

FONTES HODIERNITODAY’S SOURCES

—Haec sententia ex ipsius ingenio, non ex nuntio singulari.This piece reflects on the times rather than a single report.

Res ex fontibus; sententia Romani.Facts from the sources; the opinion is the Roman’s.

C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus

61–c. 113 p.C.n.A.D. 61–c. 113 · Ludi · EpistulaeSport · Letters

Avunculi Plinii heres, orator, consul, Traiani legatus; epistulas elegantissimas de amicis, villis, iudiciis, ludis scripsit.Heir to his uncle Pliny, orator, consul and Trajan’s governor; he wrote the most elegant letters on friends, villas, trials and the games.

Haec vox restituta est ex his libris:This voice is reconstructed from:

Epistulae I–XPanegyricus

Omnia scripta →Everything by this writer →