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"Is it not more worthy of your mighty ambition, to be blended with your learned brethren at Rome, than to stand the sole great wonder of wisdom amidst a parcel of paltry provincials?" Melmoth, Cic. Ep. 2. 23.
Velim—ibi malis esse ubi aliquo numero sis, quam isthic ubi solus sapere videare, Cic. Epist. l. i. ep. 10.
"In short, I plainly perceive your finances are in no flourishing situation, and I expect to hear the same account of all your neighbours; so that famine, my friend, most formidable famine, must be your fate, if you do not provide against it in due time. And since you have been reduced to sell your horse, e'en mount your mule,"(the
