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What a mighty artist is Life, shooting her shuttle to weave the wings of the locust one of those insignificant insects of whom long ago Pliny said: In his tam parcis, ferè nullis, quae vis, quae sapientia, quam inextricabilis perfectio! How truly was the old naturalist inspired!
He therefore brought to the knowledge of the Catholic world the principal points of his answer to Napoleon in the Encyclical, nullis certe verbis, of date 19th January, in which he declared that he was prepared to suffer the last extremities rather than betray the cause of the church and of justice.
The splendid cadence of the opening couplet Cynthia prima suis miserum me cepit ocellis Contactum nullis ante cupidinibus must have come on its readers with the shock of a new revelation. Nothing like it had ever been written in Latin before: itself and alone it assures a great future to the Latin elegiac.
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