Then dropp’d exhausted, and appear’d at rest,

Till the strong foe the vital powers possess’d;

Then with an inward, broken voice he cried,

“Again they come!” and mutter’d as he died.

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LETTER XXIII.

Poena autem vehemens ac multo saevior illis,

Quas et Caeditius gravis invenit aut Rhadamanthus,

Nocte dieque suum gestare in pectore testem.