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Hence the poet says: Speremus pariter, pariter metuamus amantes; Ferreus est, si quis, quod sinit alter, amat.
There is an intentional play on the words ferreus and ferre. Others have altered it to servi, and others have explained it as an allusion to the iron age, in both cases spoiling the antithesis he died, we remain and in the latter using the word in a sense not elsewhere found. Lentulus is L. Cornelius Lentulus.
Say something to Vestorius: for he is acting very liberally in regard to me. After reading a few lines he turned away silently. "Where are you going?" said Dionysius. "Back to the quarries," said Philoxenus. The true meaning of the word here seems to me to be shewn by de Am. § 87, quis tam esset ferreus, qui eam vitam ferre posset, cuique non auferret fructum voluptatum omnium solitudo?
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