Matthias Borbonius

Matthias Borbonius (1566–1629) was a Neo-Latin writer of Bohemian origin.

Quotes

 * Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.
 * All things change, and we change amongst them.
 * Deliciæ Poetarum Germanorum, Collectore A. F. G. G. (Francofurti, 1612), Pars I. p. 685.One of a series of mottoes for various Emperors, this being designed for (795–855).Among the epigrams of John Owen, the British Martial, we find (8, 58) a couplet, evidently inspired by the line of Borbonius:Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis: Quomodo? fit semper tempore pejor homo.Times change, and we change with them too. How so? With time men only the more vicious grow.See also , and Alexander Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle I, line 172:Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
 * Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 1912
 * Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), no. 3449, note


 * Excole virtutem; virtus post funera vivit, Solaque post mortem nos superesse facit.
 * Cultivate virtue; after death she lives, And by his virtues only man survives.
 * In Notes and Queries (vol. vi. 79 and 245, and vol. x. 362), R. Pierpoint refers us to Mathias Borbonius, Dictum Tiberii—one of a series of mottoes for various emperors—in connexion with the motto of the Earls of Shannon (Boyle), where the words are given in reverse order: Vivit post funera virtus.—"Virtue survives death."Cf. Euripides, Fragment 722:Αρετή δὲ, κἄν θάνη τις, ουκ απόλλυται, ζῇ δ᾿ οὐκέτ ὄντος σώματος κακοῖσι δὲ ἅπαντα φροῦδα συνθανὀνθ᾽ ὑπὸ χθονός.Virtue’s not killed at death. The body dies But virtue lives; while all that bad men had Dies with them, and is clean gone underground.
 * Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 3115