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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 1847 — BOOK XXVI.

Lewis Evans translation

Folliculus, properly the "pod, shell, or follicle" of a grain or seed, is here put for the human flesh or body, which serves as the husk to enshrine the principle of vitality.

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