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A few lines of Pliny which I wrote on the title-page of his history, will suffice to show the feelings with which I heard of his death: 'Mihi autem videtur acerba semper et immatura mors eorum qui immortale aliquid parant.
The revelation was indeed so novel and unexpected, that when the slight deformation of the planet's shape was first detected by him, he did not venture to announce it in plain terms but veiled it, according to the prevailing fashion of the time, under a Latin anagram. His celebrated sentence "Haec immatura a me jam frustra leguntur." forms, by transposing the letters, the more definite statement,
In epitaphs, the deceased person is sometimes introduced by way of prosopopaeia, speaking to the living, of which the following is an instance, wherein the defunct wife thus addresses her surviving husband: "Immatura peri; sed tu, felicior, annos Vive tuos, conjux optime, vive meos." The following epitaphs, out of several others, are worth preserving. That of Alexander:
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