<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=335853" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Roman Cemetery</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Abused have been the Romans<br>by certain scholars of more recent times<br>for not creating metaphysics<br>like other glorious nations,<br>but only aqueducts, roads, colosseums, forums,<br>the eternal city, castra, border, earthwork.<br>Abused have been the Romans<br>for building only houses, with atria<br>receiving daylight from above,<br>and with the warning on their doorsills: cave canem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If fate would have you come to Rome some day<br>and deep into the countryside, my friend, along the Via Apia<br>you were to wander,<br>you would then understand, oh, how unjust the balance is<br>in which people and peoples weigh<br>each other’s hearts and virtues. For you would see a Way<br>unrolling on and on into the landscape,<br>stone after stone, all fitting,<br>a Way lined left and right<br>with urns, sarcophaguses, mausoleums<br>preserving ashes, relics sheltering.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus did the Romans see the Way, defying every limit,<br>into the mighty realm of life through death advancing,<br>laid out in rows<br>on either side. And those who in the shade of cypresses<br>in sarcophaguses are sleeping, hear the sound<br>of shields and lances, hear the cohorts marching,<br>the wheels of chariots, the horses’ neighing. In due course<br>all this no longer does exist<br>but the more ancient dead still listen to the Way<br>that sounds on earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus did the Romans visualize a cemetery:<br>a way lined with two rows of silences.<br>And that is Roman metaphysics: a Way.<br>A way advancing through the dead, not through the quick.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lucian+Blaga">Lucian Blaga</a>, translated by Dan Duţescu<div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=335853" data-title="The Roman Cemetery de Lucian Blaga" data-description="Abused have been the Romans/by certain scholars of more recent times/for not creating metaphysics/like other glorious nations,/but only aqueducts, roads, colosseums, forums,/the eternal city, castra, border, earthwork./Abused have been the Romans/..."></div> </div> </div>

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