[7] nequiquam tacitum: i.e it is to no purpose that the bed lacks the power of speech, for it tells as emphatically and clearly (clamat) as though it could speak; cf. Catul. 80.7.
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[7] nequiquam tacitum: i.e it is to no purpose that the bed lacks the power of speech, for it tells as emphatically and clearly (clamat) as though it could speak; cf. Catul. 80.7.
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