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"Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem
Quam quæ sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus, et quæ
Ipse sibi tradit spectator."—-Hor. A. P. 180.

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"Cuncta ferit dum cuncta timet; desævit in omnes,
Ut se posse putent; nec bellua tetrior ulla
Quam servi rabies in libera terga furentes
Agnoscit gemitus, et pœnæ parcere nescit
Quam subiit, dominique memor quem verberat odit."
Claudian in Eutrop. i. 108.

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"Justum et tenacem propositi virum.
. . . . . .
Non vultus instantis tyranni
Mente quatit solida."—Hor. III. Od. iii. 1.

[11] ῥίψωμίν ἄγκυραν.

[12] "Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought."—Shakespeare.

[13] Plutarch thus describes the punishment of poisoners among the Persians.—"Poisoners are put to death, by the Persian laws, in the following manner. The head of the criminal is laid upon a flat stone, the executioner with another stone beats and pounds his head, until both head and face are entirely crushed."

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