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LXXV. HOW A MAN CALMED BY FIRE DURING ANGER.

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When they would denote a man calmed by fire even during 

p. 133

anger, they portray LIONS AND TORCHES; for the lion dreads nothing so much as lighted torches, and is tamed by nothing so readily as by them.


Footnotes

132:1 Treb. igne castigatum "chastised by fire."


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