Not easy to search, but thankfully Google scanned some old books from the American Congress Library.

It's from a letter Seneca wrote to Lucilius.

Translation says

"Dem Schlaf geneigt zu sein verbeut er dem auf Flucht sinnenden..."

Well ... makes sense! xD

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
Je suis Charlie!

PS: "Verbeut" is an archaic form of "verbietet" (had to look it up, never heard it before)

In reply to Re^4: Why does this code continue to loop? by LanX
in thread Why does this code continue to loop? by rachard11

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