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I have frequently practised it myself; as, for instance, in the following passage of my fourth Invective against Verres: "Conferte hanc Pacem cum illo Bello; hujus Praetoris Adventum, cum illius Imperatoris Victoria; hujas Cohortem impuram, cum illius Exercitu invicto; hujus Libidines, cum illius Continentia; ab illo qui cepit conditas; ab hoc, qui constitutas accepit, captas dicetis Syracusas."
This word, though sometimes denoting temperance in food and drink, more properly refers to the desire and use of money. Abstinentia is opposed to avarice; continentia to sensual pleasure. Cf. Plin. Epis. 6, 8: alieni abstinentissimus. Here render honesty, integrity. Cui indulgent. See the same sentiment, His. 4, 6: quando etiam sapientibus cupido gloriae novissima exuitur.
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