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His English style was crampt to barbarism. He would laugh, ay, and heartily, but then it must be at Flaccus's quibble about Rex or at the tristis severitas in vultu, or inspicere in patinas, of Terence thin jests, which at their first broaching could hardly have had vis enough to move a Roman muscle. He had two wigs, both pedantic, but of differing omen.
Which learned lecture of my man brought this of Terence into my memory: "Hoc salsum est, hoc adustum est, hoc lautum est, parum: Illud recte: iterum sic memento: sedulo Moneo, qux possum, pro mea sapientia. Postremo, tanquam in speculum, in patinas, Demea, Inspicere jubeo, et moneo, quid facto usus sit."
The two ministers talked together most affectionately in a close whisper, so affectionately, that one might have seen, with half an eye, that they hated each other like poison! INSPICERE tanquam in speculum, in vitas omnium Jubeo.* TERENCE. * "I bid you look into the lives of all men, as it were into a mirror."
The two ministers talked together most affectionately in a close whisper, so affectionately, that one might have seen, with half an eye, that they hated each other like poison! INSPICERE tanquam in speculum, in vitas omnium Jubeo.* TERENCE. * "I bid you look into the lives of all men, as it were into a mirror."
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