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Necessity makes it borrow and employ an expression or term contrary to the thing it means to express." "Upon my word this is something like a description of an Irish bull," interrupted the Hibernian. Scotchman. "For instance, it has been said, Equitare in arundine longa, to ride on horseback on a stick.
Then she kneeled down within the coffin, lashing herself with one hand till the blood flowed from her shoulders, and with the other holding up the crucifix, which she kissed from time to time, whilst she recited the hymn of the holy St. Bernard: "Salve caput cruentatum, Totum spinis coronatum, Conquassatum, vulneratum, Arundine verberatum Facie sputis illita."
Virgil had that love of rivers which, I think, a poet is rarely without; and it did not need Greece to teach him to sing of the fields: Propter aquam, tardis ingens ubi flexibus Mincius et tenera praetexit arundine ripas. "By the water-side, where mighty Mincius wanders, with links and loops, and fringes all the banks with the tender reed."
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