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In Reply to: RE: ridicule dictu? posted by MaxwellP on May 19, 2015 at 13:28:30
As in the image of Rumor in the "Aeneid". . .At once Rumour runs through Libya's great cities - Rumour the swiftest of all evils. Speed lends her strength, and she wins vigor as she goes; small at first through fear, soon she mounts up to heaven, and walks the ground with head hidden in the clouds. Mother Earth, provoked to anger against the gods, brought her forth. . . swift of foot and fleet of wing, a monster awful and huge, who for the many feathers in her body has as many watchful eyes beneath - wondrous to tell [mirabile dictu] - as many tongues, as many sounding mouths, as many pricked-up ears. By night, midway between heaven and earth, she flies through the gloom, screeching, and droops not her eyes in sweet sleep; by day she sits on guard on high rooftop or lofty turrets, and affrights great cities, clinging to the false and wrong, yet heralding truth. Now exulting in manifold gossip, she filled the nations and sang alike of fact and falsehood. . .
Edits: 05/19/15Follow Ups:
Thanks. Clever indeed. I've read the Aeneid, studied classics in college, and thought the OP's use reminded me of something. But who was the clever re-user? The OP? Google turned up nothing for me. Maybe my age is working against me here. Thanks for taking the time to respond to my post.
Tom
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