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Jupiter hunc coeli dignatus honore fuisset, Censorem lingua sed timet esse suae. Raphael Maffei, surnamed Volaterranus, the compiler of the Commentarii urbani , a huge encyclopaedia published in thirty-eight books, composed the following witty stanza on the death of Valla: Tandem Valla silet solitus qui parcere nulli est Si quaeris quid agat? nunc quoque mordet humum.
Ipsum enim Thomam adhuc florida in aetate existentem ingentem auri massam circa monasterium defodisse perhibent; de quo multoties interrogatus ubi esset, cum risu respondere solitus erat: 'Job, Johannes, et Zacharias vel vobis vel posteris indicabunt'; idemque aliquando adiicere se inventuris minime invisurum.
No, Sir, I should not be surprized though Garrick chained the ocean, and lashed the winds. BOSWELL. 'Should it not be, Sir, lashed the ocean and chained the winds? JOHNSON. 'No, Sir, recollect the original: "In Corum atque Eurum solitus saevire flagellis Barbarus, Aeolia nunquam hoc in carcere passos, Ipsum compedibus qui vinxerat Ennosigaeum."
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