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Suum cuique
also: to each his own
A classical Latin legal-moral tag ('to each his own'), traceable to Cicero and the Justinian Institutes, long proverbial in educated Russian usage.
Reading notes
- The Fair §51 Suum cuique
Latin, "to each his own"; a classical legal and moral tag (echoed in Cicero and the Justinian Digest) that the narrator drops in, already glossed in the source text itself, to cap the story's closing contrast between fainting ladies and blissful peasant girls.