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"In te omnis domus inclinata recumbit."

VIRGIL. Æneid, XII., 59.

"A house dismantled and decayed,

On you is fain to lean."-(Conington.)

"In tempore ad eam veni: quod rerum omnium est

Primum."

TERENCE. Heautontimorumenos, Act II., Sc. III., 123.—(Syrus.) "I came just in time,

Time, that in most affairs is all in all."-(George Colman.) "In tenui labor, at tenuis non gloria." VIRGIL. Georgics, IV., 6. "Slight is the subject of my work, not slight shall be its fame.”

"In turbas et discordias pessimo cuique plurima vis; pax et quies bonis artibus indigent." TACITUS. History, IV., 1.

"In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but
peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue."
---(Church and Brodribb.)

"(Fidens animi atque) In utrumque paratus,
Seu versare dolos, seu certae occumbere morti."

VIRGIL. Eneid, II., 61.

"Nerved with strong courage to defy

The worst, and gain his end or die."-(Conington.

"In vindicando criminosa est celeritas." PUBLILIUS SYRUS, 236. "In taking revenge, the very haste we make is criminal."—(Bacon.) "In vino veritas."

Proverbial expression. (Erasmus, Adagiorum Chiliades,

"In wine is truth."

"Incedunt victae longo ordine gentes

"Libertas".)

Quam variae linguis, habitu tam vestis et armis."

VIRGIL. Eneid, VIII., 722.

"There march the captives, all and each,

In garb as diverse as in speech,

A multiform array."-(Conington.)

"Inceptio 'st amentium, haud amantium.”

TERENCE. Andria, Act I., Sc. III., 13.—(Davus.)

"They are beginning like lunatics, not like lovers." "Incipe; dimidium facti est, coepisse: supersit Dimidium; rursum hoc incipe, et efficies."

AUSONIUS. Epigrammata, LXXXI. "Begin; 'tis half your task; the half remains; Again begin, and all your task is done."

"Inde caput morbi."

JUVENAL. Satires, III., 236.

"Hence the seeds of many a dire disease."-(Gifford.) "Inde faces ardent, veniunt a dote sagittae."

JUVENAL. Satires, VI., 139.

"Plutus, not Cupid, touched his sordid heart,
And 'twas her dower that winged th' unerring dart."—(Gifford.)

"Inde fit ut raro, qui se vixisse beatum
Dicat et exacto contentus tempore vita
Cedat uti conviva satur, reperire queamus."

HORACE. Satires, I., 1, 117.

"Hence comes it that the man is rarely seen
Who owns that his a happy life has been,
And thankful for past blessings, with good will

Retires, like one who has enjoyed his fill."-(Conington.)

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"Inde illa maxima medicorum exclamatio est, vitam brevem esse,

longam artem"."

SENECA. De Brevitate Vitae, I.

"Hence that greatest of the sayings of the doctors, that 'life is short, but art is long'."

"Indice non opus est nostris, nec vindice libris : Stat contra, dicitque tibi tua pagina, fur es.'

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MARTIAL. Epigrams, I., 53 (54), 11. "My books nor spy nor yet avenger need; Thy pages to thy face proclaim thy theft."

Indigna digna habenda sunt, quum herus facit."

PLAUTUS. Captivi, Act II., Sc. I., 6.-(Lorarius.)

"Should a master

Commit unworthy actions, yet his slaves

Must think them worthy ones."—(Bonnell Thornton.)

"Indignor quicquam reprehendi, non quia crasse Compositum, illepideve putetur, sed quia nuper."

HORACE. Epistolae, II., 1, 76.

"I chafe to hear a poem called third-rate,

Not as ill-written, but as written late."-(Conington.)

"Indocti discant et ament meminisse periti."

HÉNAULT. Abrégé Chronologique de l'Histoire de France, preface.
A translation, as Hénault states, of the following lines
from Pope's Essay on Criticism, 741 and 742.

"Content if hence th' unlearned their wants may view,
The learned reflect on what before they knew."

"Indum sanguineo veluti violaverit ostro
Si quis ebur, aut mixta rubent ubi lilia multa
Alba rosa; tales virgo dabat ore colores."

VIRGIL.

"So blushes ivory's Indian grain,

When sullied with vermilion stain:

So lilies set in roseate bed

Enkindle with contagious red.

So flushed the maid."-(Conington.)

Eneid, XII., 67.

"Inerat tamen simplicitas ac liberalitas; quae, ni adsit modus, in

exitium vertuntur."

TACITUS. History, III., 86.-(Of Vitellius.)

"He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion."

-(Church and Brodribb.)

Infelix operis summa, quia ponere totum

Nesciet; hunc ego me, si quid componere curem,
Non magis esse velim, quam naso vivere pravo,
Spectandum nigris oculis, nigroque capillo.'

HORACE.

De Arte Poetica, 34.

"Yet he shall fail, because he lacks the soul

To comprehend and reproduce the whole.
I'd not be he: the blackest hair and eye

Lose all their beauty with the nose awry.”(Conington.)

“Infinita est velocitas temporis, quae magis apparet respicientibus.”

SENECA. Epistolae, XLIX., 2.

"Infinitely swift is the flight of time, as we see, in especial, when we look

backward."

“Infirmi animi est pati non posse divitias."

SENECA.

Epistolae, V., 6.

"It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.”

“Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio plus LIVY. Histories, XXVIII., 25.

facunda."

"Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others."

"Ingeniis patuit campus; certusque merenti

Stat favor."

CLAUDIANUS. De Consulatu Fl. Malii Theodori, 262.

"Fame's wide field

To talent open lies, and favour sure
Waits upon merit.”

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'(Neque, si quis scribat, uti nos

Sermoni propiora, putes hunc esse poetam.)
Ingenium cui sit, cui mens divinior atque os
Magna soniturum, des nominis hujus honorem."

HORACE. Satires, I., 4, 43.

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"That coarse body hides a mighty mind."-(Conington.)

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Ingenium, longa rubigine laesum,

Torpet, et est multo, quam fuit ante, minus."

OVID. Tristia, V., 12, 21.

"Great talents, by the rust of long disuse,
Grow somnolent, and shrink from what they were."

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Ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes

Emollit mores, nec sinit esse feros."

OVID. Epistolae ex Ponto, II., 9, 47.

"By faithful study of the nobler arts,

Our nature's softened, and more gentle grows."

JUVENAL. Satires, XI., 154.

"Ingenui vultus puer ingenuique pudoris."

"Ingenuous grace

Beams from his eyes, and flushes in his face."-(Gifford.)

"Iniqua nunquam regna perpetuo manent."

SENECA. Medea, 195.-(Medea.)

"Unjust dominion cannot be eternal."

SENECA. Hercules Furens, 329.-(Megara.) "Fortune, the jade, but rarely spares

"Iniqua raro maximis virtutibus

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Fortuna parcit."

Those of the loftiest virtue.'

Iniquissima haec bellorum conditio est; prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur." TACITUS. Agricola, XXVII. "Nothing in war is more unjust than that all concerned claim its successes for themselves, and throw on some one individual the blame for its

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"Iniquum est collapsis manum non porrigere: commune hoc jus generis humani est."

MARCUS SENECA. Controversiae, I., 1, 14.

"It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity."

"Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora ferme et finis inclinat, dum in modum candidatorum suffragia conquirimus."

TACITUS. Annals, XV., 21.

"Our magistrates generally administer their offices better at the beginning of their tenure, but with less vigour towards the end, when they are in the position of candidates soliciting votes."

"Initium est salutis, notitia peccati."

SENECA. Epistolae, XXVIII., 9.

"The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error."

"Injusta ab justis impetrari non decet;

Justa autem ab injustis petere insipientia 'st;
Quippe illi iniqui jus ignorant, neque tenent."

PLAUTUS. Amphitryo, Prologue, 35.

"It befits not to pray the just to do injustice;
And to ask justice from the unjust is foolishness,
For the unjust nor know nor practise justice."

"Inops, potentem dum vult imitari, perit."

PHAEDRUS. Fables, I., 24, 1.

"It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.” "Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores."

CLAUDIANUS. De Quarto Consulatu Honorii, 305.

'Pride sullies the noblest character."

"Insani nomen sapiens ferat, aequus iniqui, Ultra quam satis est virtutem si petat ipsam.

HORACE. Epistolae, I., 6, 15.

"E'en virtue's self, if carried to excess,
Turns right to wrong, good sense to foolishness."-(Conington.)

"Insania scire se non potest, non magis quam caecitas se videre.” APULEIUS. De Magia, LXXX. "Insanity cannot recognise itself any more than blindness can see itself." "Insanire paret certa ratione modoque."

HORACE.

"There is a certain method in his madness."

"(At nos horrifico cinefactum te prope busto) Insatiabiliter deflebimus; aeternumque Nulla dies nobis moerorem e pectore demet."

Satires, II., 3, 271.

LUCRETIUS. De Rerum Natura, III., 918.

"By the dread pyre whereon thine ashes lie
We mourn thee ceaselessly; no day to come
Throughout all time shall consolation bring
To our grief-stricken hearts."

"Insperata accidunt magis saepe quam quae speres.

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PLAUTUS. Mostellaria, Act I., Sc. III., 40.-(Scapha.)
"Things we not hope for oftener come to pass
Than things we wish."-(Bonnell Carter.)

"Inspicere, tanquam in speculum, in vitas omnium
Jubeo, atque ex aliis sumere exemplum sibi."

TERENCE. Adelphi, Act III., Sc. III., 62.-(Demea.)
"In short, I bid him look into the lives
Of all, as in a mirror, and thence draw
From others an example for himself."-(George Colman.)

"Instar montis equum divina Palladis arte

Aedificant."

VIRGIL. Eneid, II., 15.

"The Danaan chiefs, with cunning given
By Pallas, mountain-high to heaven
A giant horse uprear."-(Conington.)

"Integer vitae scelerisque purus,
Non eget Mauris jaculis neque arcu,
Nec venenatis gravida sagittis,
Fusce, pharetra."

HORACE. Odes, I., 22, 1.

"No need of Moorish archer's craft
To guard the pure and stainless liver;
He wants not, Fuscus, poison'd shaft
To store his quiver."-(Conington.)

"Intelligisne me esse philosophum? . . . Intellexeram, si tacuisses." BOËTHIUS. De Consolatione Philosophiae, II., Prosa 7.

"Do you understand that I am a philosopher? . . . I should have so understood had you remained silent."

(Hence the phrase "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses".)

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