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Comes under the observation.

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“By a leap,” i. e. over the heads of others.

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“How vast the evils we endure.”

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He probably alludes to the custom of the Athenians, who frequently ostracized or banished by vote their public men, lest they should become too powerful.

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From in and video,—“to look upon;” with reference to the so-called “evil eye” of the envious.

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