"Detur aliquando otium

Quiesque fessis." SENECA. Hercules Furens, 929.—(Amphitryon.) "God grant the weary some surcease of toil."

"Deum namque ire per omnis

Terrasque tractusque maris, coelumque profundum."

VIRGIL. Georgics, IV., 221.

"Through every land God journeys, and across

The ocean wastes, and through the depths of heaven."

"Deum qui non summum putet,

Aut stultum aut rerum esse imperitum existumem."

CAECILIUS STATIUS. Incert. Fragment., XV. "He who does not believe that God is above all is either a fool or has no experience of life."

"(Dicendum est,) Deus ille fuit, Deus, inclyte Memmi,

Qui princeps vitae rationem invenit eam, quae

Nunc appellatur Sapientia."

LUCRETIUS. De Rerum Natura, V., 8.

"A god indeed was he, most noble Memmius,
Who first laid down for us that rule of life
Which men call Wisdom."

"Deus nobis haec otia fecit."

VIRGIL. Eclogues, I., 6.

"From God it is that comes this rest from toil."

“Deus. . . nullo magis hominem separavit a ceteris, quae quidem mortalia essent, quam dicendi facultate."

QUINTILIAN. De Institutione Oratoria, II., 16, 12.

"God has in no way more strikingly differentiated man from the rest of creation than by the gift of speech."

"Devenere locos laetos et amoena vireta Fortunatorum nemorum, sedesque beatas."

"Iulus fastens to my side,

VIRGIL. Eneid, II., 723.

His steps scarce matching with my stride."—(Conington.)

"Di immortalis virtutem approbare, non adhibere debent." METELLUS (NUMIDICUS). (Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, I.,

6, 5.)

"The immortal gods are bound to approve virtue, but not to provide us

with it."

"Di nos quasi pilas homines habent."

PLAUTUS. Captivi, Prologue, 22.

"Men are the footballs of the gods."

"Di pia facta vident."

OVID. Fasti, II., 117.

"The gods behold all righteous actions."

"Di, talem terris avertite pestem!" VIRGIL. Eneid, III., 620. "Ye Gods! from such a plague protect our land." "Di tibi, si qua pios respectant numina, si quid Usquam justitia est et mens sibi conscia recti, Praemia digna ferant."

VIRGIL. Eneid, I., 603.
May Heaven, if virtue claim its thought,
If justice yet avail for aught;

Heaven, and the sense of conscious right,

With worthier meed your acts requite."-(Conington.)

"Dic mihi, an boni quid usquam est, quod quisquam uti possiet Sine malo omni; aut, ne laborem capias, quum illo uti voles?" PLAUTUS. Mercator, Act I., Sc. I., 34.-(Charinus.) "Was ever good without some little ill? And would you lose the first to gain the last?"

"Dicenda tacendaque calles."

-(Bonnell Thornton.) PERSIUS. Satires, IV., 5.

"Thou knowest what may well be said, and what
Were best in silence hidden.

"Dicere enim bene nemo potest, nisi qui prudenter intelligit."

CICERO. Brutus, VI., 23.

"No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject."

"Dicimus autem

Hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitae,
Nec jactare jugum vita didicere magistra."

JUVENAL. Satires, XIII., 20.

"Nor those unblest who, tutored in life's school,
Have learnt of old experience to submit,

And lightly bear the yoke they cannot quit."—(Gifford.)

"Dicis formosam, dicis te, Bassa, puellam. Istud quod non est, dicere Bassa solet."

MARTIAL. Epigrams, V., 45.

"Thou sayest, Bassa, thou'rt a lovely girl;
'The thing that is not' Bassa's wont to say."

"Dicta dabant ventis, nec debita fata movebant."

VALERIUS FLACCUS. Argonautica, V., 21. "Their words flew wide upon the winds, nor moved the Fates one jot."

"Dictum sapienti sat est."

PLAUTUS. Persa, Act IV., Sc. VII., 19.—(Saturio.)
TERENCE. Phormio, Act III., Sc. III., 8.—(Antipho.)

"A word to the wise is enough."

(Hence the expression "Verbum sap.".)

"Diem, aquam, solem, lunam, noctem, haec argento non emo; Cetera, quaeque volumus uti, Graeca mercamur fide."

PLAUTUS. Asinaria, Act I., Sc. III., 46.—(Argyrippus.)
"True, I purchase not with money

Daylight nor water, sun nor moon, nor night :
Whatever else we want, we buy for ready money."
-(Bonnell Thornton.)

"Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem.'

CATULLUS. Carmina, LXXIV. (LXXVI.), 13. "Tis hard, at once to tear an old love from the heart." Difficile est proprie communia dicere.”

HORACE. De Arte Poetica, 128.

""Tis hard, I grant, to treat a subject known
And hackneyed, so that it may look one's own."

-(Conington.)

The guests are scattered here and there."-(Conington.)

"Donec eris felix multos numerabis amicos:

Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris."

OVID. Tristia, I., 9, 5.

"While fortune smiles, you'll count your friends by scores;
The sky clouds over, you will be alone."

"En ego non paucis quondam munitus amicis,
Dum flavit velis aura secunda meis,

Ut fera nimboso tumuerunt aequora vento,
In mediis lacera puppe relinquor aquis.'

OVID. Epistolae ex Ponto, II., 3, 25.

"But late surrounded by a host of friends,
The while a favouring Zephyr filled my sails,
Now when the wind-tossed waves in mountains rise,
Lone in my riven bark I face the storm."

"Cum fortuna manet, vultum servatis amici."

PETRONIUS ARBITER. Satyricon, Cap. 80.

"While your fortune lasts you will see your friend's face."

"Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori; Coelo Musa beat."

HORACE. Odes, IV., 8, 27.

"Nay, trust the Muse; she opes the good man's grave,
And lifts him to the gods."-(Conington.)

"Dignus est decipi qui de recipiendo cogitavit cum daret."

SENECA. De Beneficiis, I., 1, 9.

"The man who gives with a view to receiving deserves to be deceived."

"Dimidium donare Lino, quam credere totum Qui mavult, mavult perdere dimidium."

MARTIAL. Epigrams, I., 75 (76), 1.

"He who will give the half, not lend the whole,
Is he who wishes but the half to lose."

46

Diruit, aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis."

HORACE. Epistles, I., 1, 100.

"Builds castles up, then pulls them to the ground,

Keeps changing round for square, and square for round."-(Conington.)

Heaven approves

A blameless life by song made sweet."-(Conington.)

"Dis proximus ille

Quem ratio, non ira movet; qui, facta rependens,

Consilio punire potest."

CLAUDIANUS. De Consulatu Fl. Mallii Theodori, 227.

"Nearest the gods is he

Whom reason sways, not anger; who weighs well
The crime, and with discretion learns to mete
The penalty."

“Disce, docendus adhuc quae censet amiculus, ut si

Caecus iter monstrare velit."

HORACE. Epistolae, I., 17, 3.

"Yet hear a fellow-student; 'tis as though

The blind should point you out the way to go."—(Conington.)

'(Nam) Disciplina est eisdem munerarier

Ancillas primum ad dominas qui adfectant viam."

TERENCE. Heautontimorumenos, Act II., Sc. III., 59.—(Clitipho.)

"For 'tis a rule, with those gallants who wish

To win the mistress, first to bribe the maid."-(George Colman.)

"Discipulus est prioris posterior dies."

"To-day is the pupil of yesterday."

PUBLILIUS SYRUS, 124.

"Discit enim citius meminitque libentius illud
Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur."

HORACE. Epistolae, II., 1, 262.

"For easier 'tis to learn and recollect
What moves derision than what claims respect.”—(Conington.)

"Discite justitiam moniti, et non temnere Divos."

VIRGIL. Eneid, VI., 620.

"Behold, and learn to practise right,

Nor do the blessed gods despite."-(Conington.)

"Discite, o miseri, et causas cognoscite rerum, Quid sumus et quidnam victuri gignimur."

PERSIUS.

Satires, III., 66.

"Mount, hapless youths, on Contemplation's wings,
And mark the Causes and the End of things:
Learn what we are, and for what purpose born."—(Gifford.)

“Discite quam parvo liceat producere vitam,

Et quantum natura petat."

LUCAN. Pharsalia, IV., 377.

"Learn then how short the hours by which your life

May be prolonged, and learn how great the claim
That nature makes upon you."

"Discite sanari, per quem didicistis amare:
Una manus vobis vulnus opemque feret.
Terra salutares herbas eademque nocentes
Nutrit, et urticae proxima saepe rosa est."

"Let him

OVID. Remedia Amoris, 43.

Who was love's teacher teach you too love's cure;
Let the same hand that wounded bring the balm.
Healing and poisonous herbs the same soil bears,
And rose and nettle oft grow side by side."

"Discordia demens

Vipereum crinem vittis innexa cruentis."

"And Discord maddens and rebels;
Her snake-locks hiss, her wreaths drip gore."-(Conington.)

"Discors concordia."

"Concordia discors."

"Discordant concord."

VIRGIL. Eneid, VI., 280.

OVID. Metamorphoses, I., 433.

LUCAN. Pharsalia, I., 98.

"(Unde et philosophi quidem et poetae) Discordi concordia mundum constare dixerunt."

LACTANTIUS. Divinae Institutiones, II., 19, 17.

"Certain philosophers and poets have said that the world is a concord of discords.'

"(Rhaebe) diu, res si qua diu mortalibus ulla est,

Viximus."

VIRGIL. Eneid, X., 861.

Long have we fared through life, old friend,

If aught be long that death must end."-(Conington.)

'Diversisque duobus vitiis, avaritia et luxuria, civitatem laborare: quae pestes omnia magna imperia everterunt."

LIVY. Histories, XXXIV., 4.

"The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire."

"Diversos diversa juvant; non omnibus annis Omnia conveniunt: res prius apta nocet.'

MAXIMIANUS. Elegies, I., 103. "Different characters have different interests, and the changing years bring changes in what is becoming; things which were salutary in youth, are often injurious in later years."