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Austin's mildness the 'durus pater infantum'! And the 'super'-Horatian effulgence of Master Foolgentius! O Swan! thy critical cygnets are but goslings. N.B. I have, however, since I wrote the above, heard Mr. J. Hookham Frere speak highly of Fulgentius. Ib. p. 352.
That day, Q. Laberius Durus, a tribune of the soldiers, was slain. The enemy, since more cohorts were sent against them, were repulsed. But the system of cavalry engagement is wont to produce equal danger, and indeed the same, both to those who retreat and those who pursue.
Let him make short long, and long short if he will, 'tis no great matter; if there be invention, and that the wit and judgment have well performed their offices, I will say, here's a good poet, but an ill rhymer. "Emunctae naris, durus componere versus." Let a man, says Horace, divest his work of all method and measure,
That day, Q. Laberius Durus, a tribune of the soldiers, was slain. The enemy, since more cohorts were sent against them, were repulsed. But the system of cavalry engagement is wont to produce equal danger, and indeed the same, both to those who retreat and those who pursue.