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14 ::Lingua sed torpet, tenuis sub artus ((b) It is not in the most poignant and penetrating heat of the attack that we are in a fitting state to set forth our lamentations and our persuasions: the mind is then overloaded by intense thought and the body prostrated and languishing with love. (a) Et de la s’engendre parfois la defaillance fortuite, qui surprent les amoureux si hors de saison, et ceste glace qui les saisit, par la force d’une ardeur extreme, au giron mesme de la joüyssance. All passions which suffer themselves to be understood and marshalled in order are but lukewarm. Curæ leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent. (b) The surprise of an unhoped-for joy stuns us equally. Ut me conspexit venientem, et Troia circum Arma amens vidit, magnis exterrita monstris, Diriguit visu in medio; calor ossa reliquit; Labitur, et longo vix tandem tempore fatur. (a) Besides the Roman woman who died of glad surprise on seeing her son return from the rout of Cannæ, Sophocles and Dionysius the Tyrant who died of joy, and Talva, who died in Corsica on reading the news of the honours which the Roman Senate had bestowed upon him, we learn in our own
 * Flamma dimanat, sonitu suopte
 * Tinniunt aures, gemina teguntur
 * Lumina nocte.