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Empedocles or the Stertinian school.
As Horace has chosen to take Stertinius here as a type of the Stoics, I thought I might avail myself of a similar licence, and call the Stoics as a school by his name.
Page 129.
The ox, unyoked and resting from the plough,
Wants fodder, stripped from elm or poplar bough.
Horace merely has "strictis frondibus:" but the writers De Re Rustica, quoted by the commentators, tell us what the leaves in use were.
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When Mænius, after nobly gobbling down
His fortune, took to living on the town.
"Took to living on the town" is not meant as a version of "urbanus coepit haberi," but rather as an equivalent suggested by the context.
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Each law, each right, each statute and each act.
Horace's object is evidently to give an exhaustive notion of the various parts of the law: and I have tried to produce the same impression by accumulating terms, without caring how far they can severally be discriminated.
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I've shed no blood. You shall not feed the crow.
I'll have thee hanged to feed the crow.
Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel.
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The wise and good, like Bacchus in the play.
Borrowed from Francis, with a slight change in the order of the words.
