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LATIN QUOTATIONS."
A
dii0
" futoto atque* dementia. ?
quidem immortelibus qnaaOICBBO.
potesfc
homini major esso poena,
De Xlarmpicum Me8$onm>
XV III.,man
39.tluiu
"What**
greater puninhmont can the immortal gods inflict on " madiQoss
or insanity I
A prima
descend! t origine nrandl
Causarum
series."
LUCAH.first
" Bven from the11
Pha^-saUa,
FX
608,
beginnings of the world
Descends a chain
A proximis*'
c|ri!s
Of AJWttn.th>>( ffirmmm*"^SMwwtoWo".)
Chitiadto
Adagfowm*
" Crocodile's
tears."
CRUDA DEO VIRWISQUE^CUI PUDOR*" Oruda deo VIBOIL, viridiscjue
seneotus," " The god a hale and green old age
displayed,"Luctus,uTbiq^ue
35
^neid Vl n 304t
" Grudelis ubigue pavor, et plurima mortis imago,"VIRQIL.
Mieid,
//., 368.
" Gui bono fuorit OABSIUS.
" Dire agonies, wild terrors swarm, And Death glares grim in
many a form." " ?
(Conington.)
(Qmted by
Cicero, Philip$ica, II.,
H,
35,
and
"Whom did it benefit ?"Is fooit,"i
Pro Milone, XIL,
82.)
" Gui prodest scelus
SBNBOA,heis
Medea
}
503.
(Medea.)
1$^ Benefits by the crime,nemo, quis bonusis evil is
**
Oui malus11
est
ease potest?
the guilty man." "
MABTIAL.If ne'er a
$}pigrams
t
XIL
t
81, 2.
man
Who then*'
good
in your sight, "?
Cui non convenieb sua res, ut oaloous olim, Si pede major Grit,
subvortot si minor, urefc.";
HOBAOB,'*
IBpistolae,
/.,;
10, 42.
Means should, like shoes, be neither large nor small Too wide
they trip us up, too strait they gall."lioet,*'
Ou! peooare
peooat minus.
Semina
neB POLXGSAO. Anti*Lmt^iim K, 58* "To err is human."$
"
Oulpa
quam poena tempore1'
prior,
emendari
quam peooaw WMterlus
est.
" In point of time,"
guilt
after delinquency."
AmaU, X*F; f 90. comea before puniBhment, and eorreotlon follows
(Church and Brodribb.)TA.OIOTS,
Cum autem
sublatus fuorib ab ooulis, otiam oito transit
men to/*L,J3JJ,
THOMAS 1 BJBMMS." Once he was taken from ourminds."
De
Invitation* Qhrfati,
,t
sight, his
memory
quickly pawed out of our
" Oura oaloeatis dentibus yoniam tamen." PLAUTUS* Gaptwi, ActL
So, IL t B^-(Mrg^nUu^) "I'll come with teeth well shod," (Bonnet
Thornton,)t
"
eoepit guassata donms subsidero, partes In proolinatas omno
reoumbit onus, Ounotaquo fortuna rimam facionto dohisoant, Ipsa suo
Be,(George
1L
>
23,
(Afttwt.)
"I'm
JDavus and not QSdipua."
" De duobns mails, minus est semper oligondum.** THOMAS i
KBMPIS, JDe JwltoMow OArisii^ III, 13, 8 (t Of two evils we must
always olxooao the toaAt*"
"De meudico maleot illud
meretur, qul
quod
dafc pordit, 6t ill!
PiiAUOJua.
Tnmmmm,
He scarce deserveB who gives him whwwithii To buy him meat mil
drink for what is givi;
quod adit aut quod hi hut: produoit vltam AC! mteriam/* Act lL
So* II, 6&i*(!fottto. 41 The beggart timnknei dafet
A life of misery/Be minimis HOB
Js lot,
and only serves to lengthen out1
(Eomtll
ourat ler*" " The law pays no attention to
BAUOH,little
IMtef
OV&XXXlt.
>J2
QUO LIBRLLIDEFQRMlVSi APER.
41
**
Do quo
libelli in celebemmis lociB proponuntur, lime no pcriro qmdom
taoito obsourequo conceditur," QXCSBO, ProQuintio, n 5Q. " He who
lias once become notorious in the busy centres of life, is not
permitted even to die in silence and obscurity/*
XV
"
De11
vitiis nostris
ST. AXJGXJSTINK.If
scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa calcarom" Sermo GLXXVIL, 4,
(Higntfs Patrologiae
Curms> Fokweto rise to higher things.'*
XXXVIILfeet,
tread our vices under our
and XXXIX., p. 2082.) we make of them a ladder by which
" Decet indulgere puellae,
Vel
quum prima11
nocet/'if
OAL^XJBNIXJS.
JSGlogim, XXL, 87.
Even
It well11
woman makes the first attack, becomes the man to yield to
her."the
Decet Tereoundum esse adolescent em." PLATOJS* Asinarfaj Act 7.,
Be. Z, 6. (Demametus*) "It well becomes a young man to be modest."
(Bennett Thornton.)
"
Decipimur specie reoti." "The appearance of rightBecipit
exemplar4
HOBAOB.oft leads us
De Arte Poetica,Epi$tolae tI.,
25.
wrong,"
"
vitiis imitabile."
HOBAOT.
19, 17.
*
Faults are soon copied/'ille
(Oonington.)
14
Dedecus
domus
sciefe
ultimus."
JUVENAL.
Satires,
" Still sure the " Dediscit**
X,
342.
last his
own
disgrace to hear.*'
(Gfi/ord.)
ammus
The mind is
sero H. **Too much liberty corrupts us aXL."~-((?0ori0
Colmm.)
44
DBTUR ALIQUANDQ OTIUM^DI UIMORTAUS,"Detur aliquando
otiumSHINBCA. Jlcrcuks Wurwis, 929. " God grant the weary some
surceaso of toil."fessis."
Quiesgue
(AmphUryon*)
" Bourn namguo Terrasque tracfcusquo maris, *
iro
per crania
coolum^
profundunu"
YIBGXL, (korgic*, IV., Sai. "Through every land God journeys,
and acrowt The ocean wastes, and through the depths of heaven."
" Bourn qui non summum putot, Aut stultum ant rerum esso
imporifcum oxistumem." OAHOILIUS STATIUS, Iww/ ^mgment^ XV, " He
who does not believe that God is above all fa either a fool or lww
ucexperience oflife."
u
(Dicendum
est,)
Bens
illo fuit,
Deus, inolyto
Momml,tfatnr&, F.8,
Qtii prinoepa vitae
rationom invonit oam,LuOBiTitJS.
q[ttaa
Nuno
appellatnr Sapiential'
Da n&rnm
"A
Who
god indeed was
he, most noble MommiuH, that rule of life first laid down
for
m
"Which
men
call
Wisdom/*VIBOXX*toil,"
" Bens nobis haeo otia fecit," " From God it is that conies this
rest from.
Mcl&gim*
I
6*
" Beus * . ntillo magis feominom Boparavit a caterfi, ^tittd '
mortalia essent, quam dloondi faoultftto.1
quidmu
**
God
has in no way more strikingly differentiated creation than by
the gift of speech,"
mm
from the
t
of
" Bevenere locos laetos et
amoena
yirotaViaaifc,
Portunatorum nomorum, sedesauo beatan*""
MM, VL,
ai8.
A paratlise of*Mk^ XXJF1J'Hit/*
8*
" You cannot"Effugit
escape necessity, "but youo[uisq.uis
may overcome;
mortem.
confcempserit
timidissimum quomque oon-
QUINTUS OTJETIXJS. D Rebus Gtmtw Almm&ri Magni, IF. 14* 515.
" The only way to escape death is to despise it the coward it;
relentlessly."
Ego
cogito, ergo
sum."
DJGJSOARCTS* "I think, therefore I m"*'
Pnnc^w PMl$o$Mm
f
P^ /,
| 7.
Ego enim" In
sic In summp imperatoro ^uattuor has tm i existing, oportere,
scientiam rei xailitaris, virfcufc6m auoiorit&tdm, fciHoi*
tatem."
OIOTOO,
opinion there wre four qualifications neewsary for A very
general gkUI in hte profession, coutage, aufchority wici luck/*
my
grmt
"
Ego meorum"IVe no
solus
friend at
TBBBKOB, P^omwo, Act IF< Bo, home except myself/' (Gfwrge
I.
tt.
(Qkrmm*)
"
Ego spem
ptetio
non emo," TIBBNOB, AdetyM,rea}
$i
asse
oarum
"Buy not what you want, 40^ at a farthing."
OATO, (Same, HpistoUe* XOIV., 28.) What you do not want but what
you need.
is
56
EMENDATIO PARS--8RRARR MEHKRCUL8.t
"
EmendatiQ pars studiornm loBgo ulalirtsima." QUINTIMAN. De
ImtMutiom Omtona, X,," Correction and revision of what we write our
studies.'*is
4, 1*
by
far
tho moat uBoful part of
Emitur
sola virfcuto potesbafl."
f
>
Ctmsmitu /wnorw,
,
188.
"Virtue alone can purchase power.""
(Nee ad instar imperiti medioi)curare." ST. teQMB,
ivcl
oumL
Ad
"A"
a (yrlovotw sovereignty bwed on cruelty is in my opinion rather
tnan a lasting ono, and no ouo man (san nmko himmif to many,
without that terror recoiling upon hiinsolf."
terror
Equidem
n herole rrallum pordidi, idoo quia nunquana ullum habul.
PLAXJTUS, Asincvria, ActHL> So. t 82. -(F/itom)
uL
" Troth I've lost none, for I ne'er had ono yet,"1
(Bonndl
Ergo sollioitae tn causa, peptmia, vitao es Per te immaturum
mortis adiiuus itor* Tu vitiis iiommtim orudeiia pabwla praobos:
Semina ouraruw d oapito orta tun.," PjftOPMwu8. fllegiM,;
m,
(lit, 7) t
11
Money, thou eauseat many an anxious hour, Through the w untimely
twad the path of On thoo, oh cruel one. man's vices feed From thy
head spnng the aeeda of allj
elcmtli,
"
Erlpnit oaelo fulmen,
mox scepto(In$cn$Um on a(
Tuaaow.
Condorcet>
T%
'bmt of Xfayfarmfadid
Mwmw* Twm)*
j,
Jfowd^"
1786.)
He
robbed the heavenn of their thunder, the tyrant of Mi wftm/*
"Erraro molioroulo malesontire/'
cum
Platouo
.
quam
mmt
itl17, SO.
OXGBEO*11
TttscnlanoB DisputaHnwtt
f
In very truth I would rather bo wrong with Plato than right with
iuoh
men
as those,"
ERR AT LONQBBST DBU8 IN NQBIS."(Bt) Brrat longe, moa quidem
sentenfcia, Qui imporium oredat gravius ease, axit stabilius, Vi
quod fit, quam illud quod amicitia jimgitur." TBOTNOT. AdelpM,
ActL, Sc,11
57
I., 40.
(Mew).)
Who" Erratsi
He,
I think, deceives himself indeed, fancies that authority more
firm force,
Founded on
than what
is
built
on friendship."(George Oalman*)
quis oxistiraat faoilema mistake to imagine thatvidori,
romit is
osso donate."
SKOTQA." It "Esse,11
is
D& Vita Beata, ZZTF., an easy thing to give."Catittna,
1.
quamwas
bonus malebat." SALLUST.
LIT.
(Of Cato.)
It
his
aim to be, rather than to appear, good,"
" Bat
aliquod merit! spatium, quod nulla furentis Invidiae uaensura
oapit.*'Ox^AXJBiAisrus.
De Laudibus
StiUchonis, I/I., 48.it,"
" Merit may attain so high a place, That envy's ravings cannot
reach to " Bst ardelionum quaedam Bomao natio, Trepide oonoursans,
oooupata in olio, Gratis anhelans, multa agenda nil agens,
PiiABDEtrs. Sibi molesta et aliis odiosissima.""
flabUs, II., 5,
1.
AQuindioant,
in Borne a race of Imsybodies, Whoso chiefest occupation's
idlonoss j ask for no reward, but puff and pant And tear excitedly
about the town Making a great parade of business, 1* nuisance to
themselves, a curse to others,
There
is
Who
" Bst atque nort
est,
miM in manu,;
non
est
PLAUTUS. " As to this
Megaronides. merlto ut ne dioant, id est." Trimmmus Act L, So.
II.,t
67.
(QalUcks.)
matter, Megaronides,;
my power, and have it not. Beport is none of mine but, that
report May be unmerited, is in my power ," (wBwwwW Thornton.)I have
it in
"Eat autem gloria laus recto factotum magnorumque in rompublioam
fama merltorum, quae quum optimi cujusque, turn etiammultitudinis
testimonio oomprobatur."11
OIOEILO. PhiUppica, I., 12, 29. True glory lies in noble deeds,
and in the recognition, alike by leading men and by the nation at
large, of valuable services rendered to theState,"
'*
Bst brevitate opus, ut ourrat sententia, neu so Impadiat verbis
lassas oxwrautibtis aures." HOBAOB. Satires, I,, "Terseness there
wants to make the thought ring clear, Hor with a crowd of words
contuse the ear,"- (Oaninyton.)Bst deus in nobis," " There is a god
within tw,"OVID.Fasti,
10, 9.
'
VL,
5.
58
EST DEUS IN NOBISBST ET FIDBLLnobis, et sunt oommeroia oooli
Sedibus aethoriis spirltus Ille vonit." OVID, Dfi Arie Amandi, 11
There is a gocl within us, and the heavens:
"Bet dens in
Iff., 549.
HaveThat11
intercourse with earthspirit
;
from realms above
eometh."nisi
Eet enim amioitia nihil aliudOjU
omniumOIOKRO.
divinaruin huraanarum;
reram cum bonovolontiaimmortalibus datum."is
ob oaritato oonaenaio
(jua q\iidoxnsit
fiaud soio an, oxoepta sapientia,diis
quidquam molius
homini a20.
De AmieUfa, Vln
"What
friendship other than the harmony of all things divine ami human
with goodwill and affection? indeed, with tho oxoopticm of wisdom,
I doubt if the gods have given to mankind any choicer gift"
**
Est eniin animus coolestis ox aliisBimo domioilio dopressns, ot
demarsus in terxam, locum divinae nattirae aotornitaU(mo
oon*trarium."
OIOBRO.
D
Senectufy
XX L> 77*
"The
divine soul is drawn down from its lofty home, and, 10 to say,
plunged into the earth, an abode which is by itn nature tho
antithesis of divinity and eternity."
" Est enim hoc
commune vitium in magnin Hbii
