To each his own - origin solved?

Todd E Van Hoosear (vanhoose@lalaland.cl.msu.edu)
Thu, 30 May 1996 10:29:09 -0400 (EDT) 



From: rwagner@netspace.net.au (Robert R. Wagner)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 00:22:14 +1000


Well after a long night spent reading some 500 pages of Cicero, I seem to
have unearthed the answer as to the origin of 'to each his own'; assuming
of course, Cicero didn't borrow it from elsewhere ...


Cicero, The nature of the gods (De natura deorum), book 3, section 38:


"iustitia est unicuique suum tribuendi"


"Justice is the giving of each to his own"


Regards,


Robert R. Wagner
University of Melbourne
rwagner@netspace.net.au



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