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If Horace had told my praetor that "Abstinuit Venere et vino, sudavit et alsit," "What, to write a few lines!" would his praetorship have cried out. "Why, I can live well and enjoy life; and I flatter myself no one in Rome does more business." Dunsford. All of it only goes to show how little we know of each other, and how tolerant we ought to be of others' efforts. Milverton.
"Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit, Abstinuit venere et vino." There is another class of critics whose cant is simply can't, and who, being unable or unwilling to surrender themselves to these simple sources of enjoyment, are grandiloquent upon the dignity of manhood, and the absurdity of full-grown men in playing monkey-tricks with their bodies. Full-grown men?
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