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AIT: sc. esse; the omission with aio is rare, though common with dico, appello etc.; see n. on 22. COMICOS: not 'comic' in our sense, but = in comoediis, 'represented in comedy'. So Rosc. CREDULOS: in almost every Latin comedy there is some old man who is cheated by a cunning slave. Off. 3, 36 error hominum non proborum. ISTA: implying contempt.
Nam haec quoque, nisi tamquam lumini oleum instilles, exstinguuntur senectute. Et corpora quidem exercitationum defetigatione ingravescunt, animi autem exercitando levantur. Nam quos ait Caecilius 'comicos stultos senes, hos significat credulos obliviosos dissolutos, quae vitia sunt non senectutis, sed inertis ignavae somniculosae senectutis.
The "Hotel Soledad" asserted its selectness by the announcement: "En este hotel no se admiten companias de comicos ni toreros," but the solitude of its wooden-floored beds at least was distinctly broken and often.
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