our souls, not yet prepared for upper light

Let him forecast his work with timely care, / Which else is huddled when the skies are fair.

a humped cow, a humped curve, a two-humped camel

(1) They had become sufficiently convinced of the incorrigibleness of the party in power: the fact that the governing lords had even in the last war neither forgotten their spite nor learned greater wisdom, was shown by the effrontery bordering on simplicity with which they now instituted proceedings against Hamilcar as the originator of the mercenary war, because he had without full powers from the government made promises of money to his Sicilian soldiers.