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The works of Horace : with English notes, critical and ... - Cristo Raul

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632 EXPLANATORY NOTES. BOOK II., EPISTLE II.~<br />

<strong>The</strong> poet rejoins : Ay, indeed, tte streets are veiy clear; " a builder, tat<br />

instance, in a great heat, horries along <strong>with</strong> his moles <strong>and</strong> porters." Caiidus<br />

miy he rendered, more familiarly, "pnffing <strong>and</strong> blowing." Redemtor.-<br />

By this term is meant a contractor or master builder. Compare Odt<br />

jii^ 1 35. 73, Torquet nunc Zolpidem, nunc ing&nsmcKhinatignum. *'A<br />

machine hoists at one moment a stone, at another a ponderous beam."<br />

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