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mortale corpus: our frail dust; 'Dust are our frames; and gilded dust, our pride,' etc. (Tenn. Aylmer's Field). Cf. Livy, 22. 22, unum vile atque infame corpus. But cf. Epode 5. 13, impube corpus; Verg. Aen. 1. 70; 2. 18; Lucret. 1. 258, where corpus is a mere periphrasis.


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