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Are not Virgil's lines inflated and frothy equally with those you ridicule. Persius answers in the objector's metaphor,
gpt
They resemble a noble old tree with well-seasoned bark, not the crude and sapless pith I have just quoted.
human
Could such verses be tolerated, Persius asks indignantly,
gpt
Culpantur frustra calami, immeritusque laborat Iratis natus paries Diis atque poëtis. i., Sat. x., 70,
human
Et in versu faciendo sæpe caput scaberet vivos et roderet ungues.
gpt
O puer ut sis Vitalis metuo, et majorum ne quis amicus frigore te feriat.
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of the tongue in pronouncing it resembles the snarl of a dog (cf. Lucil., lib. i., fr. 22,
gpt
Irritata canis quod homo quam planius dicat