We belabour each other, and with tit for tat use up our foe, like Samnites, in a long-drawn bout, till the first lamps are lighted.
Of literary battles
Epistles bk. 2, no. 2, l. 97
We belabour each other, and with tit for tat use up our foe, like Samnites, in a long-drawn bout, till the first lamps are lighted.
Epistles bk. 2, no. 2, l. 97