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They ensure that all the world’s uproar frightens us no more than the sight of a rustling stand of bitter lupines shaken by filthy pigs or gusts of wind. [Literary allusion: Virgil, Georgics 1.75–76.]
Quae praestant nihilo magis nos totius mundi fragore terreri, quam si videremus tristis lupini silvam sonantem vel immundis suibus vel ventis irruentibus commoveri [n97] .