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Max Popper, MD
Los Angeles

JAMA. 1970;213(13):2270.

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To the Editor.—

In the editorial, "Half Life of Eponyms" (213:456, 1970), the second sentence reads: "It may find poetic expression in Ovid's `Exegi monumentum'." This famous poem is by Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus).

Exegi monumentum aere perennius

Regalique situ pyramidum altius,

Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens

Possit diruere, aut innumerabilis

Annorum series et fuga temporum.

Non omnis moriar.

I have raised a monument more lasting than bronze,

Loftier than the royal peak of pyramids;

No biting storm can bring it down,

No impotent north wind, nor the unnumbered series

Of the years, nor the swift course of time.

I shall not wholly die. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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