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And the roguish looks and gestures of our lackeys were also in use amongst them: "O Jane, a tergo quern nulls ciconia pinsit, Nec manus, auriculas imitari est mobilis albas, Nec lingua, quantum sitiat canis Appula, tantum." The Argian and Roman ladies mourned in white, as ours did formerly and should do still, were I to govern in this point. But there are whole books on this subject.
Horace had said si vis me flere, dolendum est Primum ipsi tibi; Persius distorts this into plorabit qui me volet incurvasse querela. Other expressions more remotely modelled on him are iratum Eupoliden praegrandi cum sene palles, and perhaps the very harsh use of the accusative, linguae quantum sitiat canis, "as long a tongue as a thirsty dog hangs out."
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