THEME CLXIX.-Never wear a brown hat in Friesland.

At Rome do as they do at Rome.

To ape a singularity,

Is proof of great vulgarity.

Bisogna urlar co' lupi.

Nihil odiosius affectatione.-Quintilian.

THEME CLXX.-Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.— Prov. xxii. 6.

As the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Ce qui poulain prend en jeunesse,
Il le continue en vieillesse.

Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est.

Argilla quidvis imitaberis uda.--Horace.

Tune formandi mores cum adhuc ætas ; tunc optimis assuescendum cum ad quidvis cereum est ingenium.— Erasmus.

Quæ præbet lætas arbor spatiantibus umbras
Quo posita est primum tempore virga fuit:
Tunc poterat manibus summa tellure revelli,
Nunc stat in immensum viribus acta suis.—Ovid.

THEME CLXXI.-Out of debt out of danger.
Would you be free as England's king?
Then, owe no mortal any thing.

Qui nihil debet lictores non timet.

Intra fortunam quisque debet manere suam.-Ovid.

THEME CLXXII.-As you sow so must you reap.

As you brew so must you bake.

As you make your bed so you must lie on it.
Qui bon l'achète bon le boit.

Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.- Cicero.

Tute hoc introisti, tibi omne est exedendum.-Terence.

THEME CLXXIII.-No man is always wise.

The bench would think it very odd,

If judges might not sometimes nod.

The learned counsel sometimes hangs his wig upon the block.

Nemo mortalium sapit omnibus horis.-Horace.
Dulce est desipere in loco.-Horace.

Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus.-Horace.

THEME CLXXIV.-Look before you leap.
Never buy a pig in a poke.

Drop the candle first to show,

If you may trust yourself below.

Ne mets à ton doigt anneau trop étroit.
Melius est cavere semper, quam patiri semel.
Galeatum sero duelli pœnitet.—Juvenal.

THEME CLXXV.-He who tries to please every body pleases nobody.

Who would please all and please himself, too,

A task undertakes that no creature can do.

Frustra laborat, qui omnibus placere studet.

THEME CLXXVI.-Be not a penny wise and a pound

foolish.

That penny's saved for worse than nought,
Which would in use have earned a groat.

Bonne la maille qui sauve le denier.

Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quærit lucrum.Plautus.

Ad mensuram aquam bibit, citra mensuram vinum.

THEME CLXXVII.-He who shuns his trial acknow

ledges himself guilty.

Fatetur facinus is qui judicium fugit.

THEME CLXXVIII.-It never rains but it pours.

O Gertrude, Gertrude,

When sorrows come, they come not single spies
But in battalions.-Shakspeare.

Un mal attire l'autre.

Après perdre perd on bien.

Malheur ne vient jamais seul.

Fortuna nulli obesse contenta est semel.

Aliud ex alio malum.

THEME CLXXIX.-It is good to have two strings to your bow.

With two good anchors your ship should ride,

If one should break, the other may bide.

The mouse that hath but one hole is easily caught.

La souris qui n'a qu'une entrée est incontinent happée. Tristo è quel topo che non ha ch' un sol pertuggio per salvarsi.

Mus non uni fidit antro.

Duabus anchoris sis fultus.-Plautus.

HEME CLXXX.-Silence gives consent.

He who does not say "Nay,"

"

We presume to mean Aye."

Assez consent qui ne dit mot.

Chi tace confessa.

Qui tacet consentire videtur, inquiunt jurisconsulti.

Tacent, satis laudant.—Terence.

THEME CLXXXI.-Money makes the mare to go.

Didius bought Rome for gold.

Contra lucrum nil valet.

Pecuniæ obediunt omnia.

THEME CLXXXII.-One good turn deserves another.

Claw me I will claw thee.-Scotch.

Qui plaisir fait plaisir requiert.

Fricantem refrica.

Pro Delo Calaurium.

Da mihi mutuum testimonium.

THEME CLXXXIII.-Between two stools one comes to the ground.

Your work will be finished, if trusted to one;

If entrusted to two, it will never be done.

Tout est fait negligemment là où l'un l'autre s'attend. Assis entre deux selles le cul à terre.

Il a le cul entre deux selles.

Tener il cul su due scanni.

Inter duas sellas decidium.-Seneca.

Neque cœlum attingit, neque terram.

Dum geminis sellis, ut aiunt, sedere volo, utraque excludor.

THEME CLXXXIV.-Nothing venture, nothing have.
Qui ne s'adventure n' à ni cheval ni mule.
Chi non s'arrischia non guadagna.

Quid enim tentare nocebit ?

Conando Græci Troja potiti sunt.
Audaces fortuna juvat.

THEME CLXXXV.-Make a virtue of necessity.

What must be done, if not a dunce,

You'll do untasked, and do at once.

Il savio fa della necessità virtù.

Chi non puo fare come voglia faccia come puo.

Chi non puo quel che vuol, quel che puo voglia

Quoniam id fieri quod vis non potest, velis id quod possis. Terence.

Persuasione cape, non vi.

THEME CLXXXVI.-Either say something better than silence, or keep silent.

Be checked for silence, never taxed for speech.— Shakspeare.

Audito multa, sed loquere pauca.

Silentium est quandoque eligibilius sermone.

Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur.

Eximia est virtus præstare silentia.—Ovid.

THEME CLXXXVII.-One swallow does not make a

summer.

You cannot fell a giant oak
By giving it a single stroke.

Una hirundo non facit ver.

THEME CLXXXVIII.—A word to the wise.
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
A bon entendeur il ne faut que demie parole.
A buon intenditor poche parole.

Dictum sapienti sat est.-Terence.
Verbum sat sapienti.