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PERHAPS Airy quoted his Juvenal correctly, which “W. E. P.” (p. 410) has failed to do. The poet was so well satisfied with the lines that he gives them twice, in his tenth and fourteenth satires. And they run thus:—
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T., W. The Planet Fortuna. Nature 71, 461 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/071461b0
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