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plane unless laws that are not
That a woman may have been very unhappy or that a state may have been held together by personal allegiance does not raise the fate of either to the tragic plane, unless "laws that are not of to-day nor yesterday," aspirations native to the heart, shine through those legendary misfortunes.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

PETIS UT LIBELLOS TUOS ad nepotem
25 49 r AD IULIUM GENITOR · 5 EST OMNINO ARTEMIDORI AD CATILINUM SEUER · UENIAM AD CENAM AD UOCONIUM ROMANUM LIBRUM QUO NUPER 10 AD PATILIUM REM ATROCEM AD SILIUM PROCUL · PETIS UT LIBELLOS TUOS ad nepotem adnotasse uideor fata dictaque· 1 AD IULIUM SERUIAN · 2 15 RECTE OMNIA AD UIRIUM SEUERUM OFFICIU CONSULATUS AD CALUISIUM RUFUM · ADSUMO TE IN CONSILIUM 20 AD MAESIUM MAXIMUM MEMINISTINE TE AD CORNELIUM PRISCUM AUDIO UALERIUM MARTIAL · 1.
— from A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by Edward Kennard Rand

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