but also to serve for a blood-letting to their Republic, and a little … — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

but also to serve for a blood-letting to their Republic, and a little to evaporate the too vehement heat of their youth, to prune and clear the branches from the stock too luxuriant in wood; and to this end it was that they maintained so long a war with Carthage.

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