In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
Medio de fonte leporum
surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat.
surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat.
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Compare: "Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings", Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I, stanza 82
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From the midst of the fountain of delights rises something bitter that chokes them all amongst the flowers.