It is a very common thing for those who are desirous of bringing good news to invent something to make the news which they bring seem more joyful. Marcus Tullius Cicero. Orations, The fourteen orations against Marcus Antonius (Philippics). Speech 1. Section 8.
Image: Diana returning from the Hunt, 1615, by Peter Paul Rubens in the collection of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, Germany, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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