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79 This truly military sentiment has been echoed by the approving voice of many a general and statesman of antiquity.

See Pliny's Panegyric on Trajan.

Silius neatly translates it, "Turpe duci totam somno consumere noctem." 80 -- _The same in habit, &c._ "To whom once more the winged god appears; His former youthful mien and shape he wears." Dryden's Virgil, iv.

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81 "As bees in spring-time, when The sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters; they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of this straw-built citadel, New-nibb'd with balm, expatiate and confer Their state affairs.

So thick the very crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd."-- "Paradise Lost" i.