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He had, eminently, that gift which the Romans called facundia and the French can translate, if with a slight degradation of meaning, by faconde; but for which we, though the adjective "facund" has, one believes, been tried, possess no noun, "Eloquence" being too much specified to "fine" writing or speaking. "Facility of expression" perhaps comes nearest.
"The only difficulty, gracious countess, has been to know where to fix the wandering choice of my bewildered eyes, where all alike are fair, and all alike facund." "We understand," said she, smiling; "Dan Cupid, choosing 'midst his mother's graces, Himself more fair, made scorn of fairest faces." The young scholar capped her distich forthwith, and bowing to her with a meaning look,
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