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It is shameful vacillation I love a long word What's the other word I was trying for? still longer I mean, tergiversation! it comes from tergum and verso, and means turning the back. It is rude to turn your back on ladies." Piers would have liked to fall at her feet, in his voiceless gratitude.
The conjunctive particle "ac," is more particularly to be noted as an out of the way word for the ordinary copulative "et": "ac tamen spatium amplexus"; "ac montium edita"; "ac post multum vulnerum," occurring so frequently in such a brief sentence is just like the monotony of composition in the extract from Bracciolini with respect to "cum": "cum pertinacius in erroribus perseveraret"; "cum venisset ad locum mortis"; "cum lictor ignem post tergum," &c.
Hoc maximum constantis animi signum: cum lector ignem post tergum, ne id videret, injicere vellet: 'huc, inquit, 'accede, atque in conspectu accende ignem; si enim illum timuissem, nunquam ad hunc locum quem effugiendi facultus erat, accessissem. Hoc modo vir, praeter fidem, egregius, consumptus est. Vidi hunc exitum, singulos actus inspexi.
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