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Word: vindicem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1948-1948
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Some of Swift's best letters and politer verses are included in this volume, and so is the proud Latin epitaph that he wrote for his tomb: ". . . ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit; abi viator et imitare si poteris strenuum pro virili libertatis vindicem . . ." W. B. Yeats, nearly 200 years later gave this inscription a great translation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gulliver in Context | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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