lateris etiam firmitate defectus, quas corporis habitus vires negaverat, a labore mutuatus est: multos enim versus uno impetu spiritus complectebatur, eosque adversa loca celeri gradu scandens pronuntiabat, ac vadosis litoribus insistens declamationes fluctuum fragoribus obluctantibus edebat, ut ad fremitus concitatarum contionum patientia duratis auribus uteretur.
His lungs too lacked strength, but he borrowed from toil the power that his bodily constitution had denied him. He used to include many lines of verse in one emission of breath and recite them climbing uphill at a smart pace. Standing in shoals, he would give out declamations against the roaring of the waves to harden his ears and enable him to endure the clamour of excited assemblies.
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