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... Epigrams , X. , 23 , 7 . A good man has a double span of life , For to enjoy past life is twice to live . " " An male sarta Gratia nequicquam coit et rescinditur ? " HORACE . Epistolae , I. , 3 , 31 . " Is that ugly breach in your good ...
... Epigrams , X. , 23 , 7 . A good man has a double span of life , For to enjoy past life is twice to live . " " An male sarta Gratia nequicquam coit et rescinditur ? " HORACE . Epistolae , I. , 3 , 31 . " Is that ugly breach in your good ...
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... Epigrams , XI . , 5 , 3 . " ' Tis a hard task not to surrender morality for riches . " " Argentum accepi ; dote imperium vendidi . " PLAUTUS . Asinaria , Act I. , Sc . I. , 74 .- ( Demaenetus . ) " I have taken the money : I have sold ...
... Epigrams , XI . , 5 , 3 . " ' Tis a hard task not to surrender morality for riches . " " Argentum accepi ; dote imperium vendidi . " PLAUTUS . Asinaria , Act I. , Sc . I. , 74 .- ( Demaenetus . ) " I have taken the money : I have sold ...
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... Epigrams , I. , 9 , 1 ( I. , 10 , 1 ) . ' Poor Cotta tries to seem at once a great man , and a pretty , But Cotta , sure , a pretty man is nothing else than petty . HORACE . Epistolae , I. , 1 , 76 . " Belua multorum es capitum ...
... Epigrams , I. , 9 , 1 ( I. , 10 , 1 ) . ' Poor Cotta tries to seem at once a great man , and a pretty , But Cotta , sure , a pretty man is nothing else than petty . HORACE . Epistolae , I. , 1 , 76 . " Belua multorum es capitum ...
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... Epigrams , II . , 20 , 1 . " Paullus buys poems ; his own poems he'll recite , For what he buys is surely his by right . " " Carpe viam et susceptum perfice munus ! " VIRGIL . Eneid , VI . , 629 . " Now to the task for which we came ...
... Epigrams , II . , 20 , 1 . " Paullus buys poems ; his own poems he'll recite , For what he buys is surely his by right . " " Carpe viam et susceptum perfice munus ! " VIRGIL . Eneid , VI . , 629 . " Now to the task for which we came ...
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... Epigrams , X. , 2 , 11 . " No thefts can mar our poems , nor centuries aid ; Yet we can build no other monument That shall be deathless . " " " " Chimaera bombinans in vacuo . ' RABELAIS . Pantagruel , II . , 7 . " " A chimæra buzzing ...
... Epigrams , X. , 2 , 11 . " No thefts can mar our poems , nor centuries aid ; Yet we can build no other monument That shall be deathless . " " " " Chimaera bombinans in vacuo . ' RABELAIS . Pantagruel , II . , 7 . " " A chimæra buzzing ...
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