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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:8984
AUTHOR:Pliny the Younger (61–105 A.D.)
QUOTATION:Modestus said of Regulus that he was “the biggest rascal that walks upon two legs.”
ATTRIBUTION:Letters. Book i. Letter v. 14. 1
 
Note 1.
Book vi. Letter xvi. contains the description of the eruption of Vesuvius, A. D. 79, as witnessed by Pliny the Elder. [back]
 

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