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That their efforts might be simultaneous, those who held the blanket, and they were legion, made use of the following neat hexameter: "Ibis ab excusso, missus ab astra, sago." And you go with a vengeance. "You shall fly from the quivering blanket, despatched to the stars."
Horace had used the expression naso suspendis adunco, a legitimate and intelligible metaphor; Persius imitates it, excusso populum suspendere naso, thereby rendering it frigid and weak. Horace had said clament periisse pudorem Cuncti paene patres; Persius caricatures him, exclamet Melicerta perisse Frontem de rebus.
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