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Stare loco nescit, micat auribus et tremit artus, Collectumque premens volvit sub naribus ignem.
virgil— ——————————Starting with a bound,
He turns the turf, and shakes the solid ground:
Fire from his eyes, clouds from his nostrils flow.Book III, lines 84–85 (translated by John Dryden).
Concretam exemit labem, purumque relinquit Aetherium sensum atque aurai simplicis ignem.
virgil— By length of time
The scurf is worn away of each committed crime;
No speck is left of their habitual stains,
But the pure ether of the soul remains.Lines 746–747 (translated by John Dryden).
Invidiam. tamquam ignem, summa petere.
— Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
— Livy, Annales (Histories), Book VIII, Section 31 (sometimes poetically translated as "Envy, like fire, soars upward").
Stare loco nescit, micat auribus et tremit artus, Collectumque premens volvit sub naribus ignem.
— ——————————Starting with a bound,
He turns the turf, and shakes the solid ground:
Fire from his eyes, clouds from his nostrils flow.
— Book III, lines 84–85 (translated by John Dryden).
Concretam exemit labem, purumque relinquit Aetherium sensum atque aurai simplicis ignem.
— By length of time
The scurf is worn away of each committed crime;
No speck is left of their habitual stains,
But the pure ether of the soul remains.
— Lines 746–747 (translated by John Dryden).
