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Scipiadas, belli fulmen, Carthaginis horror, ossa dedit terrae proinde ac famul infimus esset: 105 adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum, adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus sceptra potitus eadem aliis sopitu quietest: denique Democritum postquam matura uetustas admonuit memores motus languescere mentis, 110 sponte sau leto caput obuius obtulit ipse: ipse Epicurus obit decurso lumine uitae, qui genus humanum ingenio superauit et omnis restinxit stellas exortus ut aetherius sol. tu uero dubitabis et indignabere obire?
The Powers of Hell Lucretius 1912
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Amoris quippe nostri fama volatilis jam ubique percrebuit, tamtumque librorum, et maxime veterum, ferebamur cupiditate languescere; posse vero quemlibet, nostrum _per quaternos_ facilius, quam _per pecuniam_, adipisci favorem. "
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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