“We get blows and return them.”
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Source: The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace, Translated Into English Prose, as Near as the Two Languages Will Admit. Together with the Original Latin from the Best Editions. Wherein the Words of the Latin Text are Put in Their Grammatical Order ... with Notes ... The Whole Adapted Tothe Capacities of Youth at School, as Well as of Private Gentlemen. By David Watson ... Revised by a Gentleman Well Skill'd in this Sort of Literature at London [i.e. Samuel Patrick]. The Second Edition. [With a
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