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SENT ... PROSINT: the line is given as Ribbeck prints it. He scans it as a 'bacchius', consisting of four feet, with the measurement | v |, the last syllable of saeclo seeming to be shortened. Saeclo = 'generation'. For mood of prosint see A 317; G. 632, H. 497, I. STATIUS NOSTER: 'our fellow-countryman Statius'. So Arch. 22 Ennius noster.
Quamquam in aliis minus hoc mirum est, nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere; sed idem in eis elaborant, quae sciunt nihil ad se omnino pertinere: serit arbores, quae alteri saeclo prosint,
Of the Stuart cause we may say, as Callimachus says of his dead friend Heraclitus: 'Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake, For death takes everything away, but these he cannot take. A hundred musical notes keep green the memory of the last Prince of Romance, the beloved, the beautiful, the brave Prince Charlie everso missus succurrere saeclo.
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