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HORACE. Epistolae, I., 17, 43. "Those who have tact their poverty to mask Before their chief, get more than those who ask."

-(Conington.) Corpus patiens inediae, algoris, vigiliae, supra quam cuiquam credibile est animus audax, subdolus, varius; cujuslibet rei simulator ac dissimulator; alieni appetens, sui profusus; ardens in cupiditatibus: satis eloquentiae, sapientiae parum: vastus animus immoderata, incredibilia, nimis alta semper cupiebat."

SALLUST. Catilina, 5. "Physically, he was capable, in an incredible degree, of doing without food, warmth, and sleep; mentally, he was daring, crafty, versatile ; ready at all times to feign a virtue or dissemble a vice; hungering after the wealth of others, while prodigal of his own; a man of fiery passions; of some eloquence, but little judgment; an insatiable mind, for ever striving after the immeasurable, the inconceivable, the inaccessible."

Corruptissima republica plurimae leges." TACITUS. Annals, III., 27. "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."

(Hic dies anno redeunte festus)

Corticem astrictum pice demovebit
Amphorae fumum bibere institutae

Consule Tullo."

HORACE. Odes, III., 8, 10.

"So when the holiday comes round,
It sees me still the rosin clear
From this my wine jar, first embrowned
In Tullus' year.”—(Conington.)

JUVENAL. Satires, VII., 202.

"Corvo quoque rarior albo."

"Rarer than a white crow."

"Crambe repetita."

"Twice cooked cabbage."

JUVENAL. Satires, VII., 154.

"Cras amet qui nunquam amavit, quique amavit cras amet."

Pervigilium Veneris, 1 (Authorship uncertain).
To-morrow let him love who ne'er has loved,
And him who once has loved to-morrow love."

"Cras vives: hodie jam vivere, Posthume, serum est.
Ille sapit, quisquis, Posthume, vixit heri."

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MARTIAL. Epigrams, V., 58, 7.

"You'll live to-morrow? E'en to-day's too late ;
He is the wise man who lived yesterday."
"Credat Judaeus Apella,

HORACE. Satires, I., 5, 100.

'Tell the crazed Jews such miracles as these."-(Conington.)

"Crede mihi, bene qui latuit, bene vixit; et intra Fortunam debet quisque manere suam.'

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OVID. Tristia, III., 4, 25.

"Well doth he live who lives retired, and keeps
His wants within the limit of his means.'

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"Crede mihi, miseris coelestia numina parcunt, Nec semper laesos et sine fine premunt."

OVID. Epistolae ex Ponto, III., 6, 21. "Those who are suffering e'en the gods will spare, And grant them at the last surcease from pain."

"Crede mihi, quamvis ingentia, Posthume, dona Auctoris pereunt garrulitate sui."

MARTIAL. Epigrams, V., 52, 7.

"Believe me, Postumus, though rich the gifts,
The giver's chatter makes them nothing worth."

"Crede ratem ventis, animam ne crede puellis,
Namque est feminea tutior unda fide."

PETRONIUS ARBITER, or QUINTUS CICERO. De Mulierum levitate.—(Ed. Michael Hadrianides, Amsterdam, 1669.) "Trust thy bark to the winds, trust not thy soul to woman, More safely canst thou trust the sea than woman's word." "Crede vigori

Femineo castum haud superat labor ullus amorem."

SILIUS ITALICUS. Punica, III., 112.

Doubt not a woman's power to aid; no toil
Can daunt a pure affection."

"Credebant hoc grande nefas, et morte piandum

Si juvenis vetulo non assurrexerat."

JUVENAL. Satires, XIII., 54.

""Twas a crime

Worthy of death, such awe did years engage,
If manhood rose not up to reverend age."(Gifford.)
HORACE. Odes, II., 19, 2.

"Credite posteri."

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'Believe it, after years!"-(Conington.)

"Credula res amor est. Utinam temeraria dicar

Criminibus falsis insimulasse virum !" OVID. Heroides, VI., 21.

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Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think
My charges false and all too rashly made."

"Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam

Majorumque fames."

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HORACE. Odes, III., 16, 17.

'As riches grow, care follows: men repine
And thirst for more.".
e.”—(Conington.)

"Crescit cum amplitudine rerum vis ingenii, nec quisquam ciaram et
illustrem orationem efficere potest, nisi qui causam parem in-
venit."
TACITUS. De Oratoribus, XXXVII.
"The power of genius increases with the wealth of material at its com-
mand. No one can hope to deliver a great and epoch-making speech,
unless he has found a subject worthy of his eloquence."

"Crescit indulgens sibi dirus hydrops." HORACE. Odes, II., 2, 13. 'Indulgence bids the dropsy grow."-(Conington.)

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"Crocodili lacrimae."

Proverbial Expression.-(Erasmus, Chiliades Adagiorum,

66

'Simulatio".)

"Crocodile's tears."

"Cruda deo viridisque senectus."

VIRGIL. Eneid, VI., 304.

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The god a hale and green old age displayed."

"Crudelis ubique

Luctus, ubique pavor, et plurima mortis imago."

VIRGIL. Eneid, II., 368.

"Dire agonies, wild terrors swarm,
And Death glares grim in many a form."—(Conington.)

"Cui bono fuerit?"

CASSIUS. (Quoted by Cicero, Philippica, II., 14, 35, and
Pro Milone, XII., 32.)

"Whom did it benefit ?"

Is fecit."
"Who benefits by the crime, he is the guilty man.

"Cui prodest scelus

SENECA. Medea, 503.-(Medea.)

MARTIAL. Epigrams, XII., 81, 2.

"Cui malus est nemo, quis bonus esse potest?"

"If ne'er a man is evil in your sight,
Who then is good?"

"Cui non conveniet sua res, ut calceus olim,
Si pede major erit, subvertet; si minor, uret.”

HORACE. Epistolae, I., 10, 42.

"Means should, like shoes, be neither large nor small;
Too wide they trip us up, too strait they gall."

"Cui peccare licet, peccat minus. Ipsa potestas Semina nequitiae languidiora facit."

-(Conington.)

OVID. Amores, III., 4, 9.
The very power
Renders less vigorous the roots of evil.'

He who sins easily, sins less.

"Quod licet ingratum est. Quod non licet acrius urit.”

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OVID. Amores, II., 19, 3.

We take no pleasure in permitted joys,
But what's forbidden is more keenly sought."

"Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.'

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OVID. Amores, III., 4, 17.

"What is forbidden is our chiefest aim,
And things denied we most desire."

"Sic mihi peccandi studium permissa potestas
Abstulit, atque ipsum talia velle fugit."

MAXIMIANUS. Elegies, III., 91.

"The power to sin destroys the joy of sinning;
Nay even the will is gone.'

"Cui Pudor et Justitiae soror

Incorrupta Fides nudaque Veritas
Quando ullum inveniet parem?"

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HORACE. Odes, I., 24, 6.

Piety, twin sister dear

Of Justice! naked Truth, unsullied Faith!

When will ye find his peer?"-(Conington.)

"Cui semper dederis, ubi negas, rapere imperas."

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PUBLILIUS SYRUS, 105. "If you refuse where you have always granted, you invite to theft." Cujus autem aures veritati clausae sunt, ut ab amico verum audire nequeat, hujus salus desperanda est."

CICERO. De Amicitia, XXIV., 90.

"When a man's ears are so closed to the truth that he will not listen to it even from a friend, his condition is desperate."

Cujus tu fidem in pecunia perspexeris,

Verere verba ei credere?"

TERENCE. Phormio, Act I., Sc. II., 10.—(Davus.) "The man whose faith in money you have tried, D'ye fear to trust with words?"-(George Colman.)

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Cujusvis hominis est errare: nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perCICERO. Philippica, XII., 2, 5. "Every man may err, but no man who is not a fool may persist in error." "Errare humanum est."

MELCHIOR DE POLIGNAC. Anti-Lucretius, V., 58.

"To err is human."

"Culpa quam poena tempore prior, emendari quam peccare posterius est." TACITUS. Annals, XV:, 20.

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'In point of time, guilt comes before punishment, and correction follows after delinquency."-(Church and Brodribb.)

"Cum autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiam cito transit e mente." THOMAS À KEMPIS. De Imitatione Christi, I., 23, 1. "Once he was taken from our sight, his memory quickly passed out of our minds."

"Cum calceatis dentibus veniam tamen."

PLAUTUS. Captivi, Act I., Sc. II., 84.-(Ergasilus.)

"I'll come with teeth well shod."—(Bonnell Thornton.)

"Cum coepit quassata domus subsidere, partes
In proclinatas omne recumbit onus,

Cunctaque fortuna rimam faciente dehiscunt,
Ipsa suo quodam pondere tecta ruunt."

OVID. Tristia, II., 83.

"When that a house is tottering to its fall,
The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part,
One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads,
And its own weight soon brings it toppling down."

"Cum dignitate otium."

CICERO, Ad Familiares, I., 9, 21.-(Cf. De Oratore, I., 1, 1.) "Ease with dignity."

"Id quod est praestantissimum, maximeque optabile omnibus sanis et bonis et beatis, cum dignitate otium.”

CICERO. Pro Sestio, XLV., 98.

"That which stands first, and is most to be desired by all happy, honest, and healthy-minded men, is ease with dignity."

"Cum his viris equisque, ut dicitur, . . . decertandum est."

CICERO. De Officiis, III., 33, 116.

"We must fight them, as the saying is, with foot and horse."

“Cum insanientibus furere." PETRONIUS ARBITER. Satyricon, Cap. III. "To rave with the insane."

"Cum jam plus in mora periculi quam in ordinibus conservandis praesidii, omnes passim in fugam effusi sunt.” LIVY. Histories, XXXVIII., 25.

"As the danger of delay began to outweigh the security afforded by ordered ranks, the flight became general."

"Cum lux altera venit

Jam cras hesternum consumpsimus; ecce aliud cras
Egerit hos annos, et semper paulum erit ultra."

PERSIUS.

Satires, V., 67.

"(When dawns another day)

Reflect that yesterday's to-morrow's o'er.

Thus one to-morrow! one to-morrow! more,'

Have seen long years before them fade away;

And still appear no nearer than to-day.”—(Gifford.)

"Cum ratione licet dicas te vivere summa; Quod vivis, nulla cum ratione facis."

MARTIAL. Epigrams, III., 30, 5.

"How can you say you live by reason's light,
When there's no reason why you live at all?"

"Cum sitis similes, paresque vita,

Uxor pessima, pessimus maritus,

Miror non bene convenire vobis." MARTIAL. Epigrams, VIII., 35, 1.

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"Cumque sit exilium, magis est mihi culpa dolori: Estque pati poenam, quam meruisse, minus.

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OVID. Epistolae ex Ponto, I., 1, 61.

"An exile I; yet 'tis the fault that pains;
The punishment is nought; that 'tis deserved

Is all the pang."

"Cunctas nationes et urbes populus aut primores aut singuli regunt;

delecta ex iis, et consociata rei publicae forma laudari facilius quam evenire, vel si evenit haud diuturna esse potest.

TACITUS. Annals, IV., 33.

"All nations and cities are ruled by the people, the nobility, or by one man. A constitution, formed by selection out of these elements, it is easy to commend but not to produce, or if it be produced, it cannot be lasting."-(Church and Brodribb.)

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