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With old Romans, I conjecture, it was the terror not of Pluto, for whom probably they cared little, but of doing unworthily, doing unvirtuously, which was their word for un_man_fully.

From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas

With old Romans, I conjecture, it was the terror not of Pluto, for whom probably they cared little, but of doing unworthily, doing unvirtuously, which was their word for unmanfully.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas