"Coram rege suo de paupertate tacentes Plus poscente ferent." 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 Consule Tullo." HORACE. Odes, III., 8, 10. "So when the holiday comes round, 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). "Cras vives: hodie jam vivere, Posthume, serum est. Non ego." MARTIAL. Epigrams, V., 58, 7. "You'll live to-morrow? E'en to-day's too late ; 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.' OVID. Tristia, III., 4, 25. "Well doth he live who lives retired, and keeps " "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, "Crede ratem ventis, animam ne crede puellis, 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 "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, "Credite posteri." 'Believe it, after years!"-(Conington.) "Credula res amor est. Utinam temeraria dicar Criminibus falsis insimulasse virum !" OVID. Heroides, VI., 21. ་་ Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think "Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam Majorumque fames." " HORACE. Odes, III., 16, 17. 'As riches grow, care follows: men repine "Crescit cum amplitudine rerum vis ingenii, nec quisquam ciaram et "Crescit indulgens sibi dirus hydrops." HORACE. Odes, II., 2, 13. 'Indulgence bids the dropsy grow."-(Conington.) " "Crocodili lacrimae." Proverbial Expression.-(Erasmus, Chiliades Adagiorum, 66 'Simulatio".) "Crocodile's tears." "Cruda deo viridisque senectus." VIRGIL. Eneid, VI., 304. " 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, "Cui bono fuerit?" CASSIUS. (Quoted by Cicero, Philippica, II., 14, 35, and "Whom did it benefit ?" Is fecit." "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, "Cui non conveniet sua res, ut calceus olim, HORACE. Epistolae, I., 10, 42. "Means should, like shoes, be neither large nor small; "Cui peccare licet, peccat minus. Ipsa potestas Semina nequitiae languidiora facit." -(Conington.) OVID. Amores, III., 4, 9. He who sins easily, sins less. "Quod licet ingratum est. Quod non licet acrius urit.” OVID. Amores, II., 19, 3. We take no pleasure in permitted joys, "Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.' OVID. Amores, III., 4, 17. "What is forbidden is our chiefest aim, "Sic mihi peccandi studium permissa potestas MAXIMIANUS. Elegies, III., 91. "The power to sin destroys the joy of sinning; "Cui Pudor et Justitiae soror Incorrupta Fides nudaque Veritas " 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." 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.) severare. 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. " '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 Cunctaque fortuna rimam faciente dehiscunt, OVID. Tristia, II., 83. "When that a house is tottering to its fall, "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 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, "Cum sitis similes, paresque vita, Uxor pessima, pessimus maritus, Miror non bene convenire vobis." MARTIAL. Epigrams, VIII., 35, 1. "Cumque sit exilium, magis est mihi culpa dolori: Estque pati poenam, quam meruisse, minus. OVID. Epistolae ex Ponto, I., 1, 61. "An exile I; yet 'tis the fault that pains; 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.) |