transversi

Updated: July 25, 2026

This recommendation, as he well knew, was equivalent to a command. In the prologue he expresses his sense of the affront with great manliness and force of language. We quote some lines from it, as a specimen of the best plebeian Latin; "Necessitas, cuius cursus, transversi impetum Voluerunt multi effugere, pauci potuerunt, Quo me detrusit paene extremis sensibus?

Charles Thomas Cruttwell - The History of Roman Literature : From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius