Book 9
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There are, however, examples of the same thing in Latin authors. It was the energy of Africanus that gave him his peculiar excellence, his excellence that gave him glory, his glory that gave him rivals. Auct. ad Herenn. iv. 25. Calvus again writes, Consequently this means the abolition of trials for treason no less than for extortion, for offences covered by the Plautian law no less than for treason, for bribery no less than for those offences, and for all breaches of every law no less than for bribery, etc.
2.57
It is also to be found in poets, as in the passage in Homer Il. ii. 101. describing the sceptre which he traces from the hands of Jupiter down to those of Agamemnon, and in the following from one of our own tragedians: Unknown. From Jove, so runs the tale, was Tantalus sprung, From Tantalus Pelops, and of Pelops' seed Sprang Atreus, who is sire of all our line.
