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Stare loco nescit, micat auribus et tremit artus, Collectumque premens volvit sub naribus ignem.
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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).
Adde cruorem Stultitiæ, atque ignem gladio scrutare.
— To your folly add bloodshed, and stir the fire with the sword.
— Horace, Satires, II. 3. 275.
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).
