Note 219 — Chapter XCIV
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Et tragicus plerumque dolet sermone pedestri. Telephus et Peleus, cum pauper et exul uterque, Projicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba.
Hor. Ars Poetica.
"Princes will sometimes mourn their lot in prose. Peleus and Telephus, broke down by woes, In indigence and exile forced to roam, Leave sounding phrase, and long-tail'd words, at home."—S.