ten o'clock
-LSB- FOOTNOTE 18 : dura ilia messorum -- -LRB- Latin -RRB- the strong intestines of reapers -- a quotation from Horace 's _ Epodes _ III . Trollope was an accomplished Latin scholar and later wrote a _ Life of Cicero _ . His books are full of quotations from many Roman writers . -RSB- -LSB- FOOTNOTE 19 : collops -- portions of food or slices of meat -RSB- He was equally diligent at breakfast ; and , at last , reached Ballinasloe , at ten o'clock the morning after he had left Dublin , in a flourishing condition . From thence he travelled , by Bianconi 's car , as far as Tuam , and when there he went at once to the hotel , to get a hack car to take him home to Dunmore . In the hotel yard he found a car already prepared for a journey ; and , on giving his order for a similar vehicle for his own use , was informed , by the disinterested ostler , that the horse then being harnessed , was to take Mr Daly , the attorney , to Tuam , -LSB- 20 -RSB- and that probably that gentleman would not object to join him , Martin , in the conveyance . Martin , thinking it preferable to pay fourpence rather than sixpence a mile for his jaunt , acquiesced in this arrangement , and , as he had a sort of speaking acquaintance with Mr Daly , whom he rightly imagined would not despise the economy which actuated himself , he had his carpet-bag put into the well of the car , and , placing himself on it , he proceeded to the attorney 's door .