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whose words are; “Quid nostri philosophi? Nonne in his libris ipsis, quos scribunt de contemnend glori, sua nomina inscribunt.”—“What do our philosophers do? Do they not, in those very books which they write on despising glory, set their names in the title-page?”

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Pliny the Younger, the nephew of the elder Pliny, the naturalist.

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“One who set off every thing he said and did with a certain skill.” Mucianus was an intriguing general in the times of Otho and Vitellius.—Hist. xi. 80.

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Namely, the property of which he was speaking, and not that mentioned by Tacitus.

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Apologies.

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Concessions.

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Plin. Epist. vi. 17.

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Boastful.

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“All fame emanates from servants.”—Q. Cic. de Petit. Consul. v. 17.

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“Founders of empires.”

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