orYe gods, such dread calamity avert!
Aen. iii. 620.
Not for me
To claim such honour!Aen. i. 335.
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For the eyes are always turned in the same
direction as the gesture, except when we are called
[p. 283]
upon to condemn or concede something or to express
abhorrence, when we shall show our aversion by
turning away the face and by thrusting out our
hands as though to repel the thought, as in the
lines:
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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