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Then the little bell gave a note or two, and the reading began, so near that I could hear the words, or seem to remember them as I know now what they were. "Adjuro te maleficum Grendel vocatum diabolum " So far had the priest got when they turned the corner of the house, and I stood up.
Because they have nothing to lose. Illis. Emphatic. They, unlike others, have no need, &c. Cf. apud illos, 44. In medium relinquam. Leave for the public, i.e. undecided. Relinquere in medio is the more common expression. Boetticher in his Lex. Tac. explains it, as equivalent by Zeugma to in medium vocatum relinquam in medio. So in Greek, en and eis often interchange.
Vulgo` vocatum, 'a brown study. Bunyan used this word in the same sense in the first edition of 'The Pilgrim's Progress, at the Interpreter's house: 'Now was Christian somewhat in a muse. It was afterwards altered, but not improved, by substituting the words, 'in a maze. Ed.
This "prandium," this essentially military meal, was taken standing, by way of symbolizing the necessity of being always ready for the enemy. Hence the posture in which it was taken at Rome, the very counter-pole to the luxurious posture of dinner. Isidorus again says, "Proprie apud veteres prandium vocatum fuisse oinnem militum cibum ante pugnam;" i.e.
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