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HAUD ... NITERETUR: in Cicero's speeches haud scarcely occurs except before adverbs and the verb scio; in the philosophical writings and in the Letters before many other verbs. IMMORTALITATIS GLORIAM: so Balb. 16 sempiterni nominis gloriam. Cf. also Arch. 26 trahimur omnes studio laudis et optimus quisque maxime gloria ducitur.
Phrases like Trahimur sub nomine pacis Momentumque fuit mutatus Curio rerum, recall the pen of Tacitus. Others are finer still Caesar's energy is rivalled by the line "Nil actum credens dum quid superesset agendum." The duty of securing liberty, even at the cost of blood, was never more finely expressed than by the noble words: "Ignoratque datos ne quisquam serviat enses."
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