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duro . . . saxo.. Washietl quotes the description of Hecuba's grief from Ennius (trag. 66): β€œquasi ferrum aut lapis durat, rarenter gemitum conatur trahens”. Cf. Keats Hyperion, I. β€˜sat grey-hair's Saturn, quiet as a stone.’

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