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I shall venture, however, to elaborate the subject from the present view-point, even though the principles of Marcus Aurelius are as applicable now as they were in the days of the Roman Empire. One of its suggestions was paralleled by the philosopher-poet when he wrote: "Latius regnes avidum domando Spiritum, quam si Libyam remotis Gadibus iungas et uterque Poenus Serviat uni."
The avidum genus auricularum , the gazing populace, receive greedily, without examination, whatever sooths superstition, and promotes wonder. Lucret. How many stories of this nature have, in all ages, been detected and exploded in their infancy? How many more have been celebrated for a time, and have afterwards sunk into neglect and oblivion?
"Conjugis ante coacta novi dimittere collum, Quam veniens una atque altera rursus hyems Noctibus in longis avidum saturasset amorem," to request him of courtesy, to deliver up his prisoner to her, as he accordingly did, the gentlemen of France never denying anything to ladies. Does she not seem to be an artist here?
Contrast between Highlanders and Lowlanders "Angli etenim sicut et politiores Scoti antiqua illa Saxonum lingua, quae nunc Anglica dicitur promiscue, alia tamen atque alia dialecto loquuntur. De Gestis Scotorum, Lib. i. Account of Harlaw Sed ea Rossianorum parendi facilitas animum praedae avidum ad maiora audenda impulit.
An example of the turn of words, amongst a thousand others, is that in the last book of Ovid's "Metamorphoses": "Heu! quantum scelus est, in viscera, viscera condi! Congestoque avidum pinguescere corpore corpus; Alteriusque animantem animantis vivere leto." An example on the turn both of thoughts and words is to be found in Catullus in the complaint of Ariadne when she was left by Theseus:
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