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"Multos in summa pericula misfit Venturi timor ipse mali: fortissimus ille est, Qui promptus metuenda pati, si cominus instent, Et differre potest." "Usque adeo, mortis formidine, vitae Percipit humanos odium, lucisque videndae, Ut sibi consciscant moerenti pectore lethum Obliti fontem curarum hunc esse timorem."
Rari gladiis aut majoribus lanceis utuntur: hastas, vel ipsorum vocabulo frameas gerunt, angusto et brevi ferro sed ita acri et ad usum habili, ut eodem telo, prout ratio poscit, vel cominus vel eminus pugnent: et eques quidem scuto frameaque contentus est: pedites et missilia spargunt, plura singuli, atque in immensum vibrant, nudi aut sagulo leves.
By opposing their breasts, not to the enemy but to their retreating husbands, praying for death in preference to captivity. Monstrata captivitate. Cominus limits captivitate, pointing to captivity as just before them. Impatientius. The adj. Cf. Freund. Feminarum nomine, i.e. propter feminas suas. Guen. So Cic.: tuo nomine et reipublicae==on your account and for the sake of the republic.
And if I have succeeded in that, I am glad: if not, I yet console myself with this reflexion, that in future you will both come to the games and come to see me, and will not leave your hope of enjoyment dependent on my letters. But neither is the emendation proposed, cominus. He often expresses his want of interest in the latter.
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