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Marcus Valerius Martialis

Simpliciter pateat vitium fortasse pusillum:
Quod tegitur, magnum creditur esse malum

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Post date July 3, 2024
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Let a defect, which is possibly but small, appear undisguised.
A fault concealed is presumed to be great.
Martial, see variant translation. Image courtesy of Picfinder.ai.

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On November 23, 1644, British poet John Milton published Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.

Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
John Milton, Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England (1644).

The name “Areopagitica” references a speech by Isocrates, the “Areopagitikós” that itself referenced a hill in Athens, Greece, the Areopagus, which had been the site of an important tribunal that the Greek orator had hoped to restore. It may also refer to the defense that St. Paul made before the Areopagus against charges of promulgating alien gods and outré teachings (see Acts 17:18 – 34).