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But they have this advantage, according to Nicocles, that the sun gives light to their success and the earth covers their failures. "Rhedarum transitus arcto Vicorum inflexu:"
In an interesting passage he complains of the comparative poverty of his subject as contrasted with that of Livy: "Ingentia illi bella, expugnationes urbium, fusos captosque reges libero egressu memorabant; nobis in arcto et inglorius labor. Immota quippe aut modice lacessita pax maestae urbis res et princeps proferendi imperii incuriosus;" but he certainly had no cause to complain.
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