The following lines, for instance, read more like the bare statement of a chronicle, or of a legal document, than an extract from a poetical narrative:- Cives Romani tunc facti sunt Campani; and this Appius indixit Karthaginiensibu' bellum; and these lines enumerating the various priesthoods established by Numa,- Volturnalem Palatualem Furrinalem Floralemque Falacrem et Pomonalem fecit Hic Idem.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
35, deinde Idem de republica libertatem sublatam quereris quam domi sustulisti.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
Simply to back one's own view by a similar view derived from another, may be useful; a quotation that repeats one's own sentiment, but in a varied form, has the grace which belongs to the Idem in alio, the same radical idea expressed with a difference-similarity in dissimilarity; but to throw one's own thoughts, matter, and form, through alien organs so absolutely as to make another man one's interpreter for evil and good, is either to confess a singular laxity of thinking that can so flexibly adapt itself to any casual form of words, or else to confess that sort of carelessness about the expression which draws its real origin from a sense of indifference about the things to be expressed.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey