"Men live best upon a little. Nature has granted to all to be happy, if the use of her gifts were but properly known.” Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles Urguentur, ignotique longa

Nocte, carent quia vate sacro. "Before great Agamemnon reigned,

Lat. HORACE.

Reigned kings as great as he, and brave,
Whose huge ambition's now contained

In the small compass of a grave;

In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown:
No bard had they to make all time their own."

A beautiful illustration of the value of poetry, in consecrating and embalming the deeds of virtue and of valor.

Vocabula artis. Lat.-"Professional terms, words, or expressions: jaw-breaking words."

Volenti non fit injuria. Lat. Law maxim.-"To one who willingly embarks in any cause, or willingly gives his assent to any measure, no injury is done." No one can complain of wrong in a proceeding, when the measure had his previous assent.

Voluptates commendat rarior usus. Lat. JUVENAL.-"Our pleasures have a higher relish when they are but rarely used." The keenest sense of pleasure is blunted by a too frequent repetition.

Volventibus annis. Lat.-"In the course of years."

An

Vox et praeterea nihil. Lat.-"A voice and nothing more." empty and unavailing sound; a fine speech without matter; a mere display of words; mere moonshine.

Vox faucibus haesit. Lat. VIRGIL.-"My voice stuck in my throat." Spoken by a person struck dumb with amazement.

Vox populi. Lat.-"The voice of the people, the popular voice." Vox populi vox Dei. Lat.-"The voice of the people is the voice of GOD."

Vox Stellarum. Lat.-"The voice of the stars." "Moore's Almanac, the scandal of the respectable company of Stationers, is still sold by the Stationers at their Hall, with Vox Stellarum for the first words on the title-page."

Vraisemblance. Fr.-"Probability or likelihood." "There is a good deal of vraisemblance in the circumstances."

Vulnus alit venis, et caeco carpitur igni. Lat. VIRGIL.-" She [or he] nourishes the poison in the veins, and is consumed by the hidden fire." Applied very frequently to a secret passion, where, according to our immortal bard,—

Vultus est index animi. Lat. prov.-"The countenance is the index or portraiture of the mind." So say the disciples of Lavater; but, like other general rules, it is liable to many exceptions.

Vultus instantis tyranni. Lat. HORACE.-"The stern gaze or

look of the threatening tyrant." In other words, the stern and ruthless tyrant himself. "One terrible presence, one active mischief, vultus instantis tyranni, is mercifully withdrawn from us."

Z.

Zollverein. German.-The Prusso-Germanic Customs League. Zonam perdidit. Lat. HORACE.-"He has lost his purse." He is desperate through the want of money.

INDEX.

In this Index only the principal words, or those most likely to be remembered, in the
several quotations, will be found, and the initial words are all omitted, as the quotations are
arranged in alphabetical order.

Two (or more) words should always be looked out in the Index, when they occur in many
pages of the work.

adversae, 128, 224, 404 aevi, 44, 101

altae, 417

alter, 234, 386, 422, 454
altera, 101, 135, 384
alteram, 41, 436
altercando, 305
altère, 174

alteri, 10, 115, 214, 425
alterius, 135, 158, 195,
197, 220, 229, 238, 292,
355
alterna, 392
alterum, 381, 393
alti, Lat., 136
altioribus, 223
alto, Ital., 6
altra, 87

altri, 79, 111, 159

altro, 114

ament, 222

amentem, 293

amère, 245

ameris, 456

amers, 256, 257
amertumes, 256
amet, 381, 384
ami, 55, 207, 208,384,407
amica, 27, 43
amice, Lat., 25, 135
amici, Ital., 90, 118, 145
amici, Lat., 129,311,353,

408, 410, 436, 446, 466
amicis, 149, 312,349,400,
454
amicitia, 146, 205, 269,
361, 368, 381, 401,433,
460

altum, 39, 261, 370, 387, amicitiae, 205, 212

390

amicitiam, 364

amicitias, 451

amicitur, 461

aliorum, 52, 97, 148, 278 amans, 377

aliis, 97,101,107,160,162, amabilis, 456

163, 206, 412, 460

amabitur, 384, 455

alio, 10

αμάχανον, 29

alios, 66, 385

amantem, 390

aliqua, 67

amantes, 275

amico, Ital., 21, 209
amico, 52, 168, 302, 332
amicos, 126, 160,164,172,

320, 328, 331, 368, 423
amiculus, 122
amicum, 383, 384
amicus,109,200,231,297,
381, 384, 446

amigo, 54

amigos, 35, 88, 263
amis, 68, 207, 320
amisit, 351, 386
amissa, 360