-"He, Martianus, is much mistaken and deceived, who thinks that the life of Priam and of Nestor was long: not existence, but health, is life."

Etatis cujusque notandi sunt tibi mores. HOR.-"You must carefully observe the manners of every age." By inattention to this rule, even Shakspeare has committed

anachronisms.

Eternum inter se discordant. TER.-"They are everlastingly at variance with each other."

Ethiopem dealbāre. Prov.-"To wash a blackamoor white." Evo rarissima nostro

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Simplicity, a thing most rare in our age." Ovid, like Seneca, sometimes praises a simplicity and self-denial, which he himself failed to practise.

Affectum dantis pensat censura Tonantis. "The judgment of the Thunderer weighs the intention of the giver." A mediæval line.

Afflavit Deus et dissipantur.-" God has sent forth his breath, and they are dispersed." In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, a medal with the above inscription was struck, to record the destruction of the Spanish Armada.

-Age, libertate Decembri,

Quando ita majores voluerunt, utěre HOR.

Come, since our forefathers would have it so, use the freedom of December." Said in allusion to the Saturnalia, during which the slaves at Rome were allowed a greater latitude than usual.

Age quod agis.-"Attend to what you are about "—or, as the clock at the Inner Temple formerly had it, "Begone about your business." Agere considerate pluris est quam cogitare prudenter. CIC. "It is better to act considerately than to think wisely." Very similar in meaning to the maxim, Paulum sepulta, &c., which see.

-Agnosco větěris vestigia flamma. VIRG.-"I recognise

the remains of my former attachment." A somewhat similar expression to that of Gray,

"E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." Agnus Dei.-"The Lamb of God." A cake of wax stamped with the figure supporting the banner of the cross. It is supposed by the Romish Church to have miraculous powers for preserving the faithful. A part of the mass for the dead is also so called, from the circumstance of its beginning with these words.

Agricola incurvo terram dimōvit arātro ;

Hinc anni labor; hinc patriam parvosque nepōtes
Sustinet: hinc armenta boum, meritosque juvencos.

:

VIRG.

"The husbandman cleaves the earth with his crooked plough hence the labours of the year: hence he supports his country and his little offspring: hence his herds of kine and the steers which have earned his sustenance."

Agri non omnes frugiferi sunt. Crc.-"All fields are not fruitful." So too all men are not equally susceptible of improvement.

-Ah miser!

Quantâ labōras in Charybdi,

Digne puer meliore flamma! HOR.

"Into what an abyss hast thou fallen, unhappy youth! deserving of a more happy flame!" A parallel case to that of Samson and Delilah.

Ah! nimium faciles, qui tristia crimina cædis
Flumined tolli posse putētis aquâ.

OVID.

"Ah! too credulous mortals, who imagine that the guilt of bloodshed can be removed by the waters of the stream." Alba galline filius. Prov.-"The son of a white hen." Said of a person extremely fortunate. An eagle is said to have dropped a white hen, with a sprig of laurel, into the lap of Livia, the wife of the Emperor Augustus. Album calculum addere.-"To give a white stone." In voting, among the ancients, approval was signified by putting into the urn a white stone; disapproval, or censure, by a black one.

Alea judiciorum." Chance judiciary." "The uncertainty of judgments;" which too often, as it were, depend on

the throw of a die. "The glorious uncertainty of the law."

Aleator, quanto in arte est mělior, tanto est nequior. STR."The gambler, the more skilful he is in his art, the more wicked is he."

Alexander victor tot regum atque populorum iræ succubuit. SEN." Alexander, the conqueror of so many kings and nations, was himself subdued by anger."

Aliam

quercum excute.-" Go, shake some other oak." Said by a person who has already shown his liberality to an applicant.

Alia res sceptrum, alia plectrum.—“ A sceptre is one thing, a fiddlestick another."

Alias.-"Otherwise." Applied to persons who assume two or more names; as A, alias B. It also means a second writ, issued after a first writ has been issued to no purpose.

Alibi.-"Elsewhere." Law Term. When a person accused of an offence endeavours to prove that he was absent from the place at the time when the crime was committed, he is said to set up an alibi.

-Aliëna negotia centum

Per caput, et circa săliunt latus

HOR.

"A hundred affairs of other people come into my head, and beset me on every side."

-Aliena negotia curo,

Excussus propriis.

HOR.

-"I attend to the business of other men, regardless of my own." This quotation may be aptly applied to such busy-bodies as Esop met, when carrying his lantern at mid-day. See Phædrus, B. iii. F. 19.

Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent. SYR.-"That which belongs to others pleases us most, while that which belongs to us is most valued by others." Few men are content with their station: so true it is that

"Men would be angels, angels would be gods;
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,

Aspiring to be angels, men rebel." POPE's Essay on Man.
-Aliena opprobria sæpe

Abstĕrrent vitiis

HOR.

-"The disgrace of others often deters us from crime."

Alienâ optimum insaniâ frui.—"It is best to profit by the madness of others." A proverb quoted by the Elder Pliny. See Optimum est alienâ, &c.

Aliena vitia in oculis habemus-a tergo nostra sunt. SEN.— "We have the vices of others always before our eyesour own behind our backs." See Ut nemo in sese, &c. Aliená vivere quadrâ. Juv.-" To eat off another man's trencher." To live at another's expense.

Alieni appetens, sui profusus. other's, lavish of his own." the historian.

SALL." Covetous of anCatiline is here described by

Alieni temporis flores.-" Blossoms of a time gone by." Flowers that bloomed in other days.

-Alieno in loco

Haud stabile regnum est. SEN.

-" Over a distant realm sovereignty is insecure." Alienos agros irrigas tuis sitientibus. Prov.-" You are watering your neighbours' fields, while your own are parched with drought." Said to an interfering busybody.

Alii sementem faciunt, alii metent. Prov.-"The one sows, the other will reap."

Alio patriam quærunt sub sole jacentem. VIRG.-" They seek a country situate beneath another sun."

Aliorum medicus, ipse ulceribus scates. "The physician of others, you are full of ulcers yourself."

Aliquando gratius est quod facili quam quod plenâ manu datur.- Sometimes that is more acceptable which is given with a kindly, than that which is received from a full hand." Presents are acceptable according to the spirit in which they are given.

Aliquem fortunæ filium reverentissimè colère ac venerāri. AUST.-"To treat with the greatest reverence and respect a man who is the darling of fortune." To

-"follow that false plan,

That money only makes the man.' Aliquis non debet esse judex in propriâ causâ. man ought to be judge in his own cause."

COKE.-" No

Alis volat propriis." He flies with his own wings." He is able to take care of himself.

Thanet.

Motto of the Earl of

Aliter cătuli longe olent, aliter sues. PLAUT.-" Puppies have one smell, pigs quite another." All animals have an instinct by which they recognise their young. Alitur vitium, vivitque tegendo. VIRG.-" Vice is nourished and lives by concealment."

Alium silere quod valeas, primus sile. SEN." That you may impose silence upon another, first be silent yourself." Alma mater.-"A kind," or "benign, mother." A term originally used in reference to the earth, but employed by students to designate the university in which they were educated. It is said to have been first applied to Cambridge. -Alta sedent civilis vulněra dextræ. LUCAN." The wounds inflicted by civil war are deeply seated." Altěrá manu fert lõpĭdem, altěrá panem ostentat. PLAUT."In one hand he carries a stone, while in the other he shows bread." So our proverb, "He carries fire in one hand, and water in the other."

Altěrá manu scabunt, altěrâ fĕriunt. Prov.-"They scratch you with one hand, and strike you with the other." Said of treacherous and deceitful persons.

Alter idem. CIC.-"Another self." See Verus amicus. Alter ipse amicus. Prov.-"A friend is a second self." The thought occurs more than once in the works of Aristotle. Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest.-" Let no man be the servant of another, who can be his own master."

-Alterius sic

Altera poscit opem, res et conjurat amicè. Hor.

"Thus does one thing require the co-operation of another, and they join in mutual aid."

Alter remus aquas, alter mihi radat arēnas. PROP.-" Let one of my oars skim the water, the other touch the sands." By acting thus, we shall not find ourselves out of our depth.

Alter rixatur de laná sæpe caprinâ,
Propugnat nugis armātus.—

HOR.

-"Another raises a dispute about a lock of goat's wool, and has recourse to arms for trifles." Potentates, as well as wolves, have often acted upon this principle, when they have deemed it to their interest to "pick a quarrel." Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labuntur. CURT."The deepest rivers flow with the least noise."

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