Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then … - Tacitus

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Neither should, for the same reason, the lessons be for too long a period; they fatigue and bore a horse, and it should be returned to the stable with the same good spirits it had upon leaving it.

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Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.

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