"Non oportere quemquam a sermone principis tristem discedere TITUS. (Suetonius, VIII., 8.)

(dicebat).

"No one should ever go away sad from an audience with his sovereign."

"Non parcit populis regnum breve." STATIUS.

Thebais, II., 446.

"A short reign brings no respite to the masses."

"Non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum: rectius occupat Nomen beati, qui deorum

Muneribus sapienter uti, Duramque callet pauperiem pati, Pejusque leto flagitium timet; Non ille pro caris amicis

Aut patria timidus perire."

HORACE. Odes, IV., 9, 45.

"The lord of boundless revenues
Salute him not as happy: no,
Call him the happy, who can use
The bounty that the gods bestow,
Can bear the load of poverty,

And tremble not at death, but sin:

No recreant he when called to die

In cause of country or of kin."-(Conington.)

"Non rete accipitri tenditur, neque miluo,

Qui male faciunt nobis: illis qui nihil faciunt tenditur."

TERENCE. Phormio, Act II., Sc. II., 16.—(Phormio.)

"The net's not stretched to catch the hawk,
Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those,
Who do us none at all."-(George Colman.)

"Non satis est pulchra esse poemata; dulcia sunto, Et quocumque volent animum auditoris agunto.'

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HORACE. De Arte Poerica, 99.

"Mere grace is not enough a play should thrill
The hearer's soul, and move it at its will."-(Conington.)

"Non satis est puris versum perscribere verbis.”

HORACE. Satires, I., 4, 54.

""Tis not sufficient to combine

Well-chosen words in a well-ordered line."-(Conington.)

"Non semper ea sunt quae videntur; decipit Frons prima multos, rara mens intelligit Quod interiore condidit cura angulo.'

PHAEDRUS.

Fables, IV., 2, 5.

"Things are not always what they seem to us;
How many does the outward form deceive!
Rare is the mind that's skilled to understand
What's carefully concealed behind the mask."

"Non semper placidus perjuros ridet amantes

Jupiter, et surda negligit aure preces."

PROPERTIUS. Elegies, III., 7, 47 (II., 16, 47).

"Not always does Jove calmly smile

At lovers' perjuries, and to their prayers

Turn a deaf ear.'

"Non sentire mala sua non est hominis et non ferre non est viri." SENECA. Ad Polybium, de Consolatione, XVII., 2. "Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly." "Non sentiunt viri fortes in acie vulnera."

CICERO. Tusculanae Disputationes, II., 24, 58.

"In the stress of battle brave men do not feel their wounds."

Sic erit."

"Non, si male nunc, et olim

HORACE. Odes, II., 10, 17.

"Because to-day the Fates are stern,
"Twill not be ever so.'

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"Non sibi, sed domino gravis est, quae servit, egestas."

LUCAN. Pharsalia, III., 152.

"Dangerous is servile poverty, Not to itself but to the lord it serves.'

"Non sum occupatus unquam amico operam dare."

PLAUTUS. Mercator, Act II., Sc. II., 2, 17.-(Lysimachus.) "I've always leisure to assist my friend."-(Bonnell Thornton.)

"Non sum qualis eram bonae

Sub regno Cinarae.

HORACE. Odes, IV., 1, 3.

"Trust me, I am not the same

As in the reign of Cinara, kind and fair."-(Conington.)

"Non sunt longa, quibus nihil est quod demere possis; Sed tu, Cosconi, disticha longa facis."

MARTIAL. Epigrams, II., 77, 7.

"No poem's too long from which you nought can take;
With you, Cosconius, e'en a distich's long."

"Non tali auxilio nec defensoribus istis Tempus eget."

VIRGIL. Eneid, II., 521.

"Not such defenders, not such aid as this,

The times demand."

"Non tam bene cum rebus humanis agitur, ut meliora pluribus placeant; argumentum pessimi turba est."

SENECA. De Vita Beata, II., 1.

"Human affairs are not so well arranged that the wisest counsels find the most supporters; the opinion of the mob is a worthless argument."

"Non tam portas intrare patentes

Quam fregisse juvat."

LUCAN. Pharsalia, II., 443.

"Less it delights through open gates to pass,
Than first to break them down."

"Non temerarium est, ubi dives blande appellat pauperem. Jam illic homo aurum me scit habere, eo me salutat blandius." PLAUTUS. Aulularia, Act II., Sc. II., 7.—(Euclio.)

"Non tibi illud apparere, si sumas, potest;
Nisi tu immortale rere esse argentum tibi.
Sero atque stulte, prius quod cautum oportuit,
Postquam comedit rem post rationem putat.'

-(Bonnell Thornton.)

PLAUTUS. Trinummus, Act II., Sc. IV., 12.—(Stasimus.)
"You cannot eat your cake and have it too,
Unless you think your money is immortal.
The fool too late, his substance eaten up,
Reckons the cost."-(Bonnell Thornton.)

"Non tu corpus eras sine pectore."

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HORACE. Epistolae, I., 4, 6.

No brainless trunk is yours."-(Conington.)

"Non tu nunc hominum mores vides?

Quojusmodi hic cum fama facile nubitur.
Dum dos est, nullum vitium vitio vortitur."

PLAUTUS. Persa, Act III., Sc. I., 57.—(Saturio.)

"You don't observe the manners of the times

Girls, of whatever character, get husbands
Easily here, and so they have but money,

All faults are overlooked."-(Bonnell Thornton.)

"Non tu scis, cum ex alto puteo sursum ad summum escenderis, Maximum periculum inde esse, a summo ne rursum cadas?"

PLAUTUS. Miles Gloriosus, Act IV., Sc. IV., 14.-(Palaestrio.)

"Do you not know

When from the bottom of a well you've mounted
Up to the top, then there's the greatest danger,
Lest from the brink you topple back again?"

-(Bonnell Thornton.)

"Non tutum est, quod ames, laudare sodali.”

OVID. De Arte Amandi, I., 741.

"'Tis dangerous to praise aught that you love
Before your boon companion."

“Non ut diu vivamus curandum est, sed ut satis."

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SENECA. Epistolae, XCIII., 2.

"It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one."

Non, ut intelligere possit, sed, ne omnino possit non intelligere, curandum."

QUINTILIAN. De Institutione Oratoria, VIII., 2, 24. "It must be our effort, not so much to make ourselves intelligible, as, above all things, to avoid being misunderstood."

"(Sed) non videmus, manticae quod in tergo est."

CATULLUS. Carmina, XX. (XXII.), 21.

"Nought see we of the wallet at our back."

"Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas :

Propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit,
Alienis ante pectus suspendit gravem.
Hac re videre nostra mala non possumus;
Alii simul delinquunt, censores sumus.
PHAEDRUS.

Fables, IV., 10, 1.

"Two sacks has Jove upon our shoulders placed :
One hangs behind with our own vices filled,

One, with our neighbours' weighted, on our breast.
Thus our own failings are concealed from view;
Let others stumble, swift we criticise."

"Aliena vitia in oculis habemus, a tergo nostra sunt."

SENECA. De Ira, II., 28, 8.

"The vices of others we have before our eyes; our own are behind our backs."

"Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere; nemo;
Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo."

PERSIUS. Satires, IV., 23.

"How few, alas, their proper faults explore!
While on his loaded back, who walks before,
Each eye is fixed."—(Gifford.)

"Non vitae, sed scholae discimus." SENECA.

Epistolae, CVI., 12.

"We learn, unfortunately, the lessons not of life, but of the schools."

"Nondum Justitiam facinus mortale fugarat; Ultima de Superis illa reliquit humum."

OVID. Fasti, I., 249.

"Nor yet was Justice banished by men's crimes;
She, last of all the immortals, left the earth."

"Nondum omnium dierum solem occidisse."

"The sun has not yet set for all time."

LIVY. Histories, XXXIX., 26.

"Nos autem, ut ceteri alia certa, alia incerta esse dicunt, sic ab his dissidentes alia probabilia, contra alia dicimus."

CICERO. De Officiis, II., 2, 7.

"Where others say that some things are certain, others uncertain, we, differing from them, say that some things are probable, others improbable."

"Nos duo turba sumus."

OVID. Metamorphoses, I., 355.

"We two are to ourselves a crowd."

"Nudo detrahere vestimenta me jubes."

PLAUTUS. Asinaria, Act I., Sc. I., 79.-(Libanus.) "You order me to strip the clothes from a naked man.' "Nudum hominem primum mater Natura profudit; Insuper excruciat, niveis quum dentibus armat."

SERENUS SAMONICUS. De Medecina, 1038.

"Naked is man of Mother Nature born;

But soon she tortures him, when with white teeth
She arms him."

"Nudum latro transmittit. Etiam in obsessa via pauperi pax est."

SENECA. Epistolae, XIV., 9. "The footpad lets the beggar pass by. Even when the highway is in the hands of brigands, there is no danger to the poor man.'

"Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator."

JUVENAL. Satires, X., 22.

"Void of care the beggar trips along, And, in the spoiler's presence, trolls his song."-(Gifford.)

"Nudus amor formae non amat artificem."

PROPERTIUS. Elegies, I., 2, 8. "Naked love

Loves not the beauty that is due to art."

“Num quis, quod bonus vir esset, gratias diis egit unquam? At quod dives, quod honoratus, quod incolumis."

CICERO. De Natura Deorum, III., 36, 87.
But for wealth, for

"Who was ever known to thank the gods for virtue?
honour, for safety, many."

"Num tibi cum fauces urit satis, aurea quaeris
Pocula?"

HORACE. Satires, I., 2, 114. "Surely you do not ask to drink from golden cups, When you're half dead with thirst?"

Fictilibus."

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JUVENAL. Satires, X., 25.

"None from earthen bowls destruction sip."-(Gifford.)

"Nulla dies adeo est australibus humida nimbis,
Non intermissis ut fluat imber aquis.

Non sterilis locus ullus ita est, ut non sit in illo
Mixta fere duris utilis herba rubis.

Nil adeo fortuna gravis miserabile fecit,
Ut minuant nulla gaudia parte malum."

OVID. Epistolae ex Ponto, IV., 4, 1.

"The south wind ne'er so fast the rain clouds brings,
That there's no glimpse of sunshine 'twixt the showers.
No land's so barren that we may not find

Some useful herb amidst the brambles hidden.

No lot has fortune so unhappy made,

But some joy's left to ease the sting of pain."

"Nulla est igitur excusatio peccati, si amici causa peccaveris."

CICERO. De Amicitia, XI., 37.

"It is no excuse for sin that we sinned for a friend's sake."