Now was the time
When the first sleep to weary mortals comes
Stealing its way, the sweetest boon of heaven.Aen. ii. 268.
[60]
But at times it
is employed solely for decorative effect, a practice
most frequent among the poets:
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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