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It is consistent therefore that subices also, which is formed exactly like obices, should be pronounced with the letter u short. Ennius, in his tragedy which is entitled Achilles, uses subices for the upper air which is directly below the heavens, in these lines: 2, Ribbeck3. By lofty, humid regions (subices) of the gods I swear, Whence comes the storm with savage roaring wind; yet, in spite of what I have said, you may hear almost everyone read subices with a long u. But Marcus Cato uses that very verb with another prefix in the speech which he delivered On his Consulship: i. 9, Jordan, who reads nos for hos. So the wind bears them to the beginning of the Pyrenees' range, where it extends (proicit) into the deep. And so too Pacuvius in the Chryses: 94, Ribbeck3. High Ida's cape, whose tongue into the deep extends (proicit).
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Some stories of the elder Publius Africanus, taken from the annals and well worth relating.
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How greatly the earlier Scipio Africanus excelled in the splendour of his merits, how lofty and noble of spirit he was, and to what an extent he was upheld by consciousness of his own rectitude, is evident from many of his words and acts. Among these are the following two instances of his extreme self-confidence and sense of superiority.
