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Virgil exhausted the resources of his genius in his portraiture of Fame: "Fama, malum, quo non aliud velocius ullum: Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo: Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit. Tot linguæ, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures. Nocte volat coeli medio terræque per umbram Stridens, nec dulci declinat lumina somno."
Thus the mind is prevented from dwelling long enough upon the figure to perceive its enormity. This is the perfection of the art. Let the genius of French exaggeration and of eastern hyperbole hide their diminished heads Virgil is scarcely more sublime. "Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit." "Her feet on earth, her head amidst the clouds." Up they go, continues our orator.
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