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After all the praises lavished on her for centuries by so many of her illustrious children, it was left for this foreigner, in the age of her decay, to pay her the most complete and most splendid eulogy: Quod regnas minus est quam quod regnare mereris; Excedis factis grandia fata tuis: Nam solis radiis aequalia munera tendis, Qua circumfusus fluctuat oceanus.

Juvenal attributes this quality to oysters which, together with mussles, have in this respect become vulgarly proverbial. "Quis enim Venus ebria curat? Inguinis et capitis quæ sint discrimina nescit Grandia quæ mediis jam noctibus ostrea mordet." "For what cares the drunken dame? Wallich informs us that the ladies of his time had recourse, on such occasions, to the brains of the mustela piscis.

A fragment has been preserved: -Hiberno pulvere, verno luto, grandia farra Camille metes- Sat. v. 20; Festus, Ep. v. Flaminius, p. 93, M.; Serv. on Virg. II. VIII. Appius Claudius II. VIII. Rome and the Romans of This Epoch

"Happy, happy world, with what delight must your great Creator and Governor witness your conduct, and what large and merited rewards await you when your term of probation shall have expired. "I, bone, quo virtus tua te vocat, i pede fausto, Grandia laturus meritorum præmia."

A fragment has been preserved: -Hiberno pulvere, verno luto, grandia farra Camille metes- Sat. v. 20; Festus, Ep. v. Flaminius, p. 93, M.; Serv. on Virg. II. VIII. Appius Claudius II. VIII. Rome and the Romans of This Epoch