Note 7 — THE HOME-RULE CANDIDATE. A STORY OF “NEW IRELAND.” CHAPTER III. THE RIVALS. (continued 2)
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Mr. Morris here unaccountably sacrifices an opportunity. Decurrens aureus arce the Latin is, and yet he gives us “castle” instead of “burg,” which, in his own translating dialect, is the true meaning of arx. To such shifts will rhyme reduce the ablest translators!