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For it was a camp proverb Pransus, paratus; armed with his daily meal, the soldier is ready for service. It was not, however, that all meals, as Isidore imagined, were indiscriminately called prandium; but that the one sole meal of the day, by accidents of war, might, and did, revolve through all hours of the day.
On this principle we come to understand why it is, that, whenever the Latin poets speak of an army as taking food, the word used is always prandens and pransus; and, when the word used is prandens, then always it is an army that is concerned. Thus Juvenal in a well-known satire "Credimus altos Desiccasse amnes, epotaque ftumina, Medo Prandente."
Do you not remember that I was particularly brilliant upon that occasion, and that I told my best story only three times in the course of the evening? I flatter myself that I know how to conceal my feelings, although I punished your claret cruelly, and was sick after it. I have a notion, dear Don, that I am not writing very coherently, as you, whether pransus or impransus, almost always do.
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