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72 .-- M.] [Footnote 41: The regna Cumana et Puteolana; loca caetiroqui valde expe tenda, interpellantium autem multitudine paene fugienda.

Cicero ad Attic.xvi.

17.] [Footnote 42: The proverbial expression of Cimmerian darkness was originally borrowed from the description of Homer, (in the eleventh book of the Odyssey,) which he applies to a remote and fabulous country on the shores of the ocean.

See Erasmi Adagia, in his works, tom.ii.

p.
593, the Leyden edition.] [Footnote 43: We may learn from Seneca (epist.


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