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Medio sustulit digito: There is more than a suggestion in the choice of the middle finger, in this instance. Among the Romans, the middle finger was known as the "infamous finger." Infami digito et lustralibus ante salivis Expiat, urentes oculos inhibere perita. Persius, Sat. ii See also Dio Chrysostom, xxxiii.
non est tua tuta voluntas. Magna petis, Phaëton, et quæ nec viribus istis Munera conveniant, nec tam puerilibus annis! They should have given him the salutary caution that the fiery steeds which he aspired to guide required the hand of restraint and not the voice of incitement 'Sponte suâ properant; labor est inhibere voluntas; Parce, puer, stimulis, ac fortius uteri loris.
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