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Essays and Dialogues

Note 2 — GIACOMO LEOPARDI. (continued 2)

Charles Edwardes translation

Cicero says: "Labour and pain are not identical. Labour is a toil-some function of body or mind—pain an unpleasant disturbance in the body. When they cut Marius' veins, it was pain; when he marched at the head of the troops in a great heat, it was labour."—Tusc. Quæst.

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