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Non mihi si _linguæ centum_ sint, _oraque centum_, Ferrea vox. Æn., vi., 625. Sil., iv., 527,
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Non mihi Mæoniæ redeat si gloria linguæ, _Centenas_que pater det Phœbus fundere _voces_, Tot cædes proferre queam. Ov., Met., viii., 532,
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Non mihi si _centum_ Deus _ora_ sonantia _linguis_.
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That their style and language may be amplified and extended adequately to the greatness and variety of their subjects.
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Grande Sophocleo carmen bacchamur hiatu; alluding to the wide mouths of the tragic masks (οἱ ὑποκριταὶ μέγα κεχηνότες, Luc., Nigrin., i., p. 28, Ben.), or to the
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Tristia mæstum vultum verba decent.
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Or whether it be an epic poem on the Parthian war, which was carried on under Nero. The genitive Parthi may be either subjective or objective, probably the former, in spite of Hor., ii., Sat. i., 15,
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Aut labentis equo describat vulnera Parthi.
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or may describe the manner in which the Parthian (
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Hor., i., Od. xix., 11) draws his bow in his retrograde course. (
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Miles sagittas et celerem fugam Parthi timet, ii., Od. iii., 17.) Casaubon describes, from Eustathius, three other ways of drawing the bow, παρὰ μαζον, παρ' ὦμον, and παρὰ τὸ δεξιὸν ὠτίον,
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like our English archers. So Propertius, lib. iv., says of the Gauls,
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Virgatis jaculantis ab inguine braccis.
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No one would read them.