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[The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades]
The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades.Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: “O tempora! O mores!”
It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach the pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues. Leonine verses are so called in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be run into a single line.
| The collected works of Ambrose Bierce | |