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Updated: May 22, 2025
But both we and the Romans agree in the main point; we both discovered the true purpose which dinner might serve, 1, to throw the grace of intellectual enjoyment over an animal necessity; 2, to relieve and antagonize the toil of brain incident to high forms of social life. "In procinct." "Geologists know not."
Every citizen, if he were not a mere proletarian animal kept at the public cost, held himself a sort of soldier-elect: the more noble he was, the more was his liability to military service: in short, all Rome, and at all times, was consciously "in procinct." Now it was a principle of ancient warfare, that every hour of daylight had a triple worth, if valued against hours of darkness.
Forty-eight years after he himself set forth beyond seas, he passed on to young John Milton "in procinct of his travels," his favourite bit of wisdom, learned from a Roman courtier well versed in the ways of Italy: "I pensieri stretti e il viso sciolto."
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