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Bad Things Come in Threes

Posted on Tuesday: February 3, 2009 by Michael Hendry

In his commentary on Horace’s Soracte Ode (1.9), David West writes: “Horace says sententiously, ‘When winds stop blowing, trees stop shaking’, meaning of course that unpleasant things do not last for ever. This could be said of a plague of … Continue reading →

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