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"Quanta pernis pestis veniet, quanta labes larido, Quanta sumini absumedo, quanta callo calamitas Quanta lanies lassitudo." Compare our verse: "Right round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran." Ennius and the tragedians make it express the stronger emotions, as violence: "Priamo vi vitam evitari." A hard letter expresses difficulty or effort, e.g. manibus magnos divellere montis.
Ille simul manibus tendit divellere nodos " Or, in the english habit which Dryden has given them, "And first around the tender boys they wind, Then with their sharpen'd fangs, their limbs and bodies grind. The wretched father, running to their aid, With pious haste, but vain, they next invade: Twice round his waist the winding volumes roll'd, And twice about his gasping throat they fold.
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