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The stubborn pride of Roman nobles broke, And bent their haughty necks beneath his yoke.
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Qui benè placârit Pallada doctus erit.
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Puer ut festis quinquatribus olim. This festival originally lasted only _one_ day; and was celebrated xiv. Kal. April. It was so called
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So
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was called Sexatrus; and
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Septimatrus. Varro, L. L., v., 3. It was afterward _extended_ to five days; hence the
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supposed that to have been the origin of the name; and so Ovid takes it,
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Nominaque a junctis quinque diebus habet, Fast., iii., 809; who says it was kept in honor of Minerva's natal day,
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Causa quod est illâ nata Minerva die, l. 812. (Others say, because on that day her temple on Mount Aventine was consecrated.) Domitian kept the festival in great state at his Alban villa. Suet., Domit., iv. Cicero has a punning allusion to it. Vid. Fam., xii., 25. These five days were the schoolmasters' holidays; and on the first they received their pay, or entrance fee, διδακτρὰ, hence called Minerval; though Horace seems to imply they were paid every month,
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Octonis referentes Idibus æra. I., Sat. vi., 75. The lesser Quinquatrus were on the Ides of June. Ov., Fast., vi., 651,
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Quinquatrus jubeor narrare minores,