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Phrases like Trahimur sub nomine pacis Momentumque fuit mutatus Curio rerum, recall the pen of Tacitus. Others are finer still Caesar's energy is rivalled by the line "Nil actum credens dum quid superesset agendum." The duty of securing liberty, even at the cost of blood, was never more finely expressed than by the noble words: "Ignoratque datos ne quisquam serviat enses."
"Momentumque fuit mutatus Curio rerum " The only sign vouchsafed to them was the conversion of an unprincipled debauchee. They have, therefore, a fair claim to be judged each upon the merits of his case, and not in the lump as enemies of the human race; and to judge them fairly is a good exercise in historical morality.
"Momentumque fuit mutatus Curio rerum, Gallorum captus spoliis et Cæsaris auro." Lucanus, Pharsalia, iv. 819 Kaltwasser makes Cæsar say to Metellus, "It was not harder for him to say it than to do it;" which has no sense in it. What Cæsar did say appears from the Life of Cæsar, c. 35. Cæsar did not mean to say that it was as easy for him to do it as to say it.
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