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Familiar Quotations

Note 719:1 — TRANSLATIONS.

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This is alluded to by Cicero in his letters to Atticus, and is mentioned by Ælian (Animated Nature, book vi. chap. 41). It is like our proverb, "Rats leave a sinking ship."

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