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...not suffer it to drop lightly from the memory.* Yet, regarded as a definition, this of the triple s * Compare with this Martial's so happy epigram upon...parallel to that which has been said above : — "Omne epigvamma sit instar apis; sit aculeus illi, Sint sun mella, eit et corporis exigui ;" which may be...

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