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Latius regnes, avidum domando 

 Spiritum, quam fi Libyam remotis 

 Gadibus jungas, et uterque Posnus 



Serviat uni. Lib. 2. Ode 2. 



Laftly, let us fuppofe that our animal part confents cheaifully and 

 with pleafure to what is didated by the intellect ; then will the ac- 

 tion be both a virtuous and pleafant adion, and the man will be 

 both a virtuous and happy man ; and fuch a man was Agefilaus, as 

 Xenophon has defcribed him, in whom virtue was not Kot^rs^ia or 

 ^syK^arsix^ endurance or abjlinence^ but *?;^y^c«^5/«, that is pkafure 

 and voliiptiioufnefs *. 



* In fine vit?e Agefilai. 



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