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Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

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PUBLILIUS SYRUSNeither life nor luck is Lasting " for num.Success has not always the ready car.Misery never quits him whose thoughts run onsomething to dread.Everyone fails to fear an ambush except him whocan set one.He " " ) who begs for what is difficult says no tohimself.In excessive wrangling truth gets lost.Pity gets a bad name nowhere.What necessity hides issought for in vain.How firm the hold of Necessity upon her throne) None dies untimely who dies in misery.The champion of the guilty begets a charge againsthimself.There's naught that time does not either soothe orquell.To cure bad health, think nothing unclean.Do not despise the steps which raise to greatness.) Necessity knows naught else but \ictory.Fear never brought one to the top." perpes is a Plautine as well as a late <strong>Latin</strong> wordperpetem pro perpetuo dizerunt poetae, Fest. 217, Miill.75

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