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CHOMMODA dicebat, si quando commoda uellet
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ARRIUS, if he wanted to say "winnings " used to say "whinnings",
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dicere, et insidias Arrius hinsidias,
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and for "ambush" "hambush";
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et tum mirifice sperabat se esse locutum,
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and thought he had spoken marvellous well,
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cum quantum poterat dixerat hinsidias.
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whenever he said "hambush" with as much emphasis as possible.
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credo, sic mater, sic liber auunculus eius.
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So, no doubt, his mother had said, so his uncle the freedman,
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sic maternus auus dixerat atque auia.
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so his grandfather and grandmother on the mother's side.
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hoc misso in Syriam requierant omnibus aures
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When he was sent into Syria, all our ears had a holiday;
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audibant eadem haec leniter et leuiter,
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they heard the same syllables pronounced quietly and lightly,
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nec sibi postilla metuebant talia uerba,
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and had no fear of such words for the future:
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cum subito affertur nuntius horribilis,
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when on a sudden a dreadful message arrives,
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Ionios fluctus, postquam illuc Arrius isset,
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that the Ionian waves, ever since Arrius went there,
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iam non Ionios esse sed Hionios
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are henceforth not "Ionian," but "Hionian."
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