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Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 2

Note 20:1 — Chapter X

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These two distichs are taken from separate parts of the fourth book of Ovid's "Tristia." The first is accurate, but the second is evidently a variation of the following:

Sic ubi mota calent viridi mea pectora Thyrso Altior humano spiritus ille malo est.

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