A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages: Translated Into English, and Occasionally Accompanied with Illustrations, Historical Poetical, and Anecdotal, with an Extensive Index, Referring to Every Important Word |
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... Romans of begin- ning their dinner or supper with eggs , and finishing with apples . WE use the expression to signify , From the ... Roman Catholic Church . Aberrare a scopo , or , non attingere scopum . Lat . prov . " To miss one's mark ...
... Romans of begin- ning their dinner or supper with eggs , and finishing with apples . WE use the expression to signify , From the ... Roman Catholic Church . Aberrare a scopo , or , non attingere scopum . Lat . prov . " To miss one's mark ...
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... Roman month which had no place in the Greek reckoning of time . The phrase was therefore used by the former to denote that the thing could never happen . Ad humum moerore gravi deducit et angit . Lat . HORACE.- " Nature oft sinks us ...
... Roman month which had no place in the Greek reckoning of time . The phrase was therefore used by the former to denote that the thing could never happen . Ad humum moerore gravi deducit et angit . Lat . HORACE.- " Nature oft sinks us ...
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... Romans , who came over with JULIUS CESAR . ' Friend , ' said the Major , ' you make anachronisms . ' ' No , no , sir , ' replied the man , ' indeed I don't make anachronisms , for I never made any thing but shoes in all my life ...
... Romans , who came over with JULIUS CESAR . ' Friend , ' said the Major , ' you make anachronisms . ' ' No , no , sir , ' replied the man , ' indeed I don't make anachronisms , for I never made any thing but shoes in all my life ...
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... Roman Emperor , HADRIAN , addressed to his soul . " Alas ! my soul ! thou pleasing companion of this body , thou fleet- ing thing , that art now deserting it ? whither art thou flying ? To what unknown region ? Thou art all trembling ...
... Roman Emperor , HADRIAN , addressed to his soul . " Alas ! my soul ! thou pleasing companion of this body , thou fleet- ing thing , that art now deserting it ? whither art thou flying ? To what unknown region ? Thou art all trembling ...
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... Roman people ] from slipping , and to absorb the blood . " " Argent comptant . Fr .- " Ready money . " For immediate pay- ment , for cash . N.B. Instead of " argent comptant " we may use 66 comp- tant " alone , just as some persons ...
... Roman people ] from slipping , and to absorb the blood . " " Argent comptant . Fr .- " Ready money . " For immediate pay- ment , for cash . N.B. Instead of " argent comptant " we may use 66 comp- tant " alone , just as some persons ...
Common terms and phrases
affect ancient appear applied bear become better body called cause character comes common Compare court danger death equal existence expression fear feel follow fortune French frequently give given Greek hand happy head heart honor hope HORACE human Ital Italy judge kind king labor land learned live look LORD manner matter maxim means mind nature never object once one's opinion original OVID pass PERSIUS person phrase PLAUTUS pleasure poet present prov quae quam quid quod reason Roman SENECA sense signify sometimes speak TERENCE term thing thou true truth vice VIRGIL virtue whole wise wish writing
Popular passages
Page 120 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 25 - This is some fellow, Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and constrains the garb Quite from his nature : ,he cannot flatter, he ! — An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth ! An they will take it, so ; if not, he's plain.
Page 201 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Page 147 - Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia neu se Impediat verbis lassas...
Page 184 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 235 - Je suis oiseau, voyez mes ailes— Je suis souris, vivent les rats!
Page 227 - Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum : Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora.
Page 437 - Spiritus intus alit: totamque infusa per artus ' Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet ' Inde hominum pecudumque genus vitaeque volantum ' Et quae marmoreo fert monstra sub aequore pontus.
Page 32 - The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Page 201 - ... huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia fuit, ut natum ad id unum diceres quodcumque ageret...