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Updated: June 12, 2025
But in verse the use of number is more obvious; though some particular species of it, without the assistance of music, have the air of harmonious prose, and especially the lyric poetry, and that even the best of the kind, which, if divested of the aid of music, would be almost as plain and naked as common language. "Quemnam te esse dicam? qui in tarda senectute;
One phrase dropped by Aper, the apologist of the modern school, is of special interest as coming from the future historian; among the faults of the Ciceronian oratory is mentioned a languor and heaviness in narration tarda et iners structura in morem annalium. It is just this quality in historical composition that Tacitus set himself sedulously to conquer.
They were the largest eyes; and their motion reminded one of those of Sordello in the Purgatorio: E nel muover degli occhi onesta e tarda: they seemed too large to move otherwise than with a slow turning like that of the heavens. At first they looked black, but if one ventured inquiry, which was as dangerous as to gaze from the battlements of Elsinore, he found them a not very dark brown.
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