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Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

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PUBLILIUS SYRUSYou will hate the man you love, unless you admonishhim aright.He who can wish for m hat isenough has his wish.''Youth must be mastered not by force but by reason.Anger isthe one thing benefited by delay.The innocent man on trialwitness.fears fortune, but not aRare must be that which you would long hold dear.It is robbery to take what you could never return.He isa king <strong>and</strong> no subject who does only what helikes.Victory loves not rivalry.Wring a blush from a friend <strong>and</strong> you lose him.I'd fain have no kingly power <strong>with</strong> its promptingsto cruelty.The bigger the affair,the greater the snare.A request is better to comply <strong>with</strong> than an order.Anger's way is to regard nothing.It's no request, it's robbery, to take from theunwilling.It'sno good to seek an antidote for a thunderbolt." The <strong>Latin</strong> is from Sen. Ep. eviii. 11.IH 299

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