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'Cerberus haec ingens latratu regna trifauci Personat. Aeneid, vi. 417. It was in 1763 that Boswell made Johnson's acquaintance. Ante, i. 391. It is no small satisfaction to me to reflect, that Dr. Johnson read this, and, after being apprized of my intention, communicated to me, at subsequent periods, many particulars of his life, which probably could not otherwise have been preserved.
He would have been informed of his wife tearing out the eyes of King Odrysius with her finger-nails, "digitos in perfida lumina condit." Soon after this, losing all appearance of woman, she became a bitch, Perdidit infelix, hominis post omnia formam, and rent the heavens with her howlings, Externasque novo latratu terruit auras.
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