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He would have been informed of his wife tearing out the eyes of King Odrysius with her finger-nails, "digitos in perfida lumina condit." Soon after this, losing all appearance of woman, she became a bitch, Perdidit infelix, hominis post omnia formam, and rent the heavens with her howlings, Externasque novo latratu terruit auras.
Alea sequa vorax species certissima furti Non contenta bonis, animum quoque perfida mergit; Furca, furax infamis, iners, furiosa, ruina. Petrarch: Dial. I dined the next day at the Freres Provencaux; an excellent restaurateur's, by-the-by, where one gets irreproachable gibier, and meets no English. After dinner, I strolled into the various gambling houses, with which the Palais Royal abounds.
The maidservant who wanted to keep the barrel of one for a blowpipe received a reprimand: "Conservare etiam sperasti, perfida? Into the fire!" So he continued his auto da fé. Seeing an old volume in vellum, he read the title, Revolutions of the Celestial Globes, by Copernicus. Whew! "Ite, maledicti, in ignem kalanis!" he exclaimed, hurling it into the flames. "Revolutions and Copernicus!
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