Book 13
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And I do not think that I ought to pass by this either, whatever it amounts to, which I find written in the Commentary of Servius Claudius, Fr. 4, Fun. that Nerio is equivalent to Neirio, meaning without anger (ne ira) and with calmness, so that in using that name we pray that Mars may become mild and calm; for the particle ne, as it is among the Greeks, is frequently privative in the Latin language also.
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Remarks of Marcus Cato, who declared that he lacked many things, yet desired nothing.
