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Vicinis enim Britannis primum a Romanis subactis ocioque enervatis, ac postea a Saxonibus expulsis commilitii eorum commercio nonnihil, mox Pictis quoque deletis ubi affinitate Anglis coniungi coepimus, expanso, ut ita dicam, gremio mores quoque eorum amplexi imbibimus. Minus enim prisca patrum virtus in pretio esse coeperat, permanente nihilominus vetere gloriae cupiditate.
Georg. 2, 50 scrobibus subactis; see also below, 59. DIFFUNDIT ET ELICIT: 'expands and lures forth'. HERBESCENTEM: this word occurs nowhere else in Latin. FIBRIS STIRPIUM: so Tusc. 3, 13 radicum fibras. GENICULATO: 'knotted'. The verb geniculo, from genu, scarcely occurs excepting in the passive participle, which is always used, as here, of plants. So Plin. Nat.
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