"Rem tibi quam nosces aptam dimittere noli; Fronte capillata, post est occasio calva."

DIONYSIUS CATO. Disticha de Moribus, II., 26. "Let nothing pass you by which will advantage you; Occasion wears a forelock, but her scalp is bald."

"Remissio animum frangit; arcum intensio."

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PUBLILIUS SYRUS, 730.

"Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind."—(Bacon.) 'Rempublicam duabus rebus contineri dixit, praemio et poena." CICERO. Ad Brutum, I., 15, 3.—(A saying of Solon.)

"A state is regulated by two things, reward and punishment."

"Repente dives nemo factus est bonus."

PUBLILIUS SYRUS, 449.

"No virtuous man ever became suddenly rich."

"Repente liberalis stultis gratus est, Verum peritis irritos tendit dolos."

PHAEDRUS. Fables, I., 23, 1.

"Who on a sudden generous becomes
Is welcomed by the fool, but for the wise
In vain he spreads his snares.'

"Rerum enim copia verborum copiam gignit."

CICERO. De Oratore, III., 31, 125.

"A plethora of matter begets a plethora of words."

"Rerum omnium magister usus." CAESAR. De Bello Civili, II., 8. "Practice, the master of all things."

PLAUTUS. Stichus, Act IV., Sc. I., 17.—(Antipho.)

"Fortune finds us friends."

"(Haud facile emergunt, quorum virtutibus obstat) Res angusta domi."

JUVENAL.

"Depressed by indigence, the good and wise
In every clime by painful efforts rise."-(Gifford.)

Satires, III., 164.-(Vide " Multis," etc.)

"Res est solliciti plena timoris amor."

OVID. Heroides, I., 12.

"Love is a thing that's full of cares and fears."

“Res loquitur ipsa, judices, quae semper valet plurimum.”

CICERO. Pro Milone, XX., 53.

"Gentlemen, the case speaks for itself, than which there is no more power

ful advocacy."

"Res quidem se mea sententia sic habet, ut, nisi quod quisque cito potuerit, nunquam omnino possit perdiscere.'

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CICERO. De Oratore, III., 23, 89.

"It is a fact, as I think, that what we cannot learn quickly we cannot learn at all."

'(Si quid agas, prudenter agas, et) respice finem." ANONYMOUS. Fabulae Aesopiae, XXII., 5.—(Printed with the Fables of Phaedrus and Avianus, Biponti, 1784.)

"Whatever you undertake, act with prudence, and consider the conse.

quences.

"Respicere exemplar vitae morumque jubebo Doctum imitatorem, et vivas hinc ducere voces.'

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HORACE. De Arte Poetica, 317.

"Look, too, to life and manners as they lie
Before you; these will living words supply."-(Conington.)

"Respue quod non es: tollat sua munera cerdo;
Tecum habita, noris quam sit tibi curta supellex."
PERSIUS.

Satires, IV., 51.

Hence with your spurious claims! Rejudge your cause,
And fling the rabble back their vile applause:
To your own breast, in quest of worth, repair,
And blush to find how poor a stock is there."-(Gifford.)

"Restabat nihil aliud nisi oculos pascere."

TERENCE. Phormio, Act I., Sc. II., 35.—(Geta.) "Naught else remained except to feast his eyes."-(George Colman.)

"Rex est qui metuit nihil,

Rex est qui cupiet nihil.

Mens regnum bona possidet;

Hoc regnum sibi quisque dat." SENECA. Thyestes, 388.-(Chorus.)

"A king is he who naught will fear,

A king is he who naught desires;

"Tis a clean heart the kingdom holds,

That kingdom each to himself may give."

"Rex regnat sed non gubernat."

JAN ZAMOISKI. Speech in the Polish Parliament, 1605.

"The king reigns but does not govern."

'Ride, si sapis."

"Laugh, if thou be wise."

MARTIAL. Epigrams, II., 41, 1.

"Rideamus yéλwтa Zapdóviov." CICERO. Ad Familiares, VII., 25, 1.

"Let us laugh a Sardonic laugh."

"Ridebat curas, necnon et gaudia vulgi,

Interdum et lacrimas."

JUVENAL. Satires, X., 51.

"He laughed aloud to see the vulgar fears,

Laughed at their joys, and sometimes at their tears."—(Gifford.)

"(Quanquam) ridentem dicere verum

Quid vetat."

HORACE. Satires, I., 1, 24.

"Why truth may not be gay I cannot see."-(Conington.)

"Ridentur mala qui componunt carmina; verum
Gaudent scriptores et se venerantur, et ultro,
Si taceas, laudant quicquid scripsere, beati."

HORACE. Epistolae, II., 2, 106.

"Bad poets are our jest; yet they delight,
Just like their betters, in whate'er they write ;
Hug their fool's paradise, and if you're slack

To give them praise, themselves supply the lack."—(Conington.)

"Ridiculum acri

Fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat res."

HORACE.

"Pleasantry will often cut clean through

Satires, I., 10, 14.

"Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est."

Hard knots that gravity would scarce undo."-(Conington.)

CATULLUS. Carmina, XXXVII. (XXXIX.), 16. "There's naught that's more ill-timed than ill-timed laughter."

"Roma parentem,

Roma patrem patriae Ciceronem libera dixit."

JUVENAL. Satires, VIII., 243. "Rome, free Rome, hailed him with loud acclaim, The father of his country-glorious name."-(Gifford.)

"Romae rus optas, absentem rusticus urbem Tollis ad astra levis."

HORACE. Satires, II., 7, 28.

"At Rome you hanker for your country home;

Once in the country, there's no place like Rome."—(Conington.)

"Romae Tibur amem ventosum, Tibure Romam."

HORACE. Epistolae, I., 8, 12.

"Town-bird at Tibur, and at Rome recluse."-(Conington.)

"Rure ego viventem, tu dicis in urbe beatum;
Cui placet alterius, sua nimirum est odio sors."

"You praise the townsman's, I the rustic's, state:
Admiring others' lots, our own we hate."-(Conington.)

"Rudis indigestaque moles."

"A rough-hewn mass, of order void."

HORACE. Epistolae, I., 14, 10.

OVID. Metamorphoses, I., 7.

"Rura mihi et rigui placeant in vallibus amnes, Flumina amem silvasque inglorius."

VIRGIL. Georgics, II., 485.

"Let me in rustic pictures take delight;
Well-watered vales, and woods and rippling streams,
Careless of fame, I'd love."

"Sacer intra nos spiritus sedet, malorum bonorumque nostrorum observator et custos."

SENECA. Epistolae, XLI., 2.

"There abides in us a holy spirit, our guardian, who watches over all that comes to us of good and of evil."

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Saepe asperis facetiis illusus; quae, ubi multum ex vero traxere, acrem sui memoriam relinquunt."

TACITUS. Annals, XV., 88. "(Nero feared the high spirit of his friend,) who often bantered him with that rough humour which, when it draws largely on facts, leaves a bitter memory behind it."-(Church and Brodribb.)

"Saepe ego audivi, milites, eum primum esse virum qui ipse consulat quid in rem sit; secundum eum, qui bene monenti obediat; qui nec ipse consulere, nec alteri parere sciat, eum extremi ingenii LIVY. Histories, XXII., 29.

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esse.

"I have often heard it said that the first man is he who can decide for himself what is best to be done, and the second, he who is willing to take good advice; the man who can neither decide for himself nor listen to another is on the lowest level of intelligence."

'Saepe est etiam sub palliolo sordido sapientia."

CAECILIUS STATIUS. Fabulae Incertae, Fragment XVIII. (II.). "Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat."

Saepe grandis natu senex nullum aliud habet argumentum quo se probet diu vixisse praeter aetatem."

SENECA. De Tranquillitate Animi, III., 8.

"A man advanced in years has often nothing but his age to show that he has lived for a long period."

'Saepe in magistrum scelera redierunt sua."

SENECA. Thyestes, 311.-(Satellites.)

"Crime oft recoils upon its author's head."

'Saepe minus est constantiae in rubore quam in culpa."

QUINTUS CURTIUS. De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni, IX., 7, 25. "Conscious innocence is often more perturbed than conscious guilt."

"Saepe piget-quid enim dubitem tibi vera fateri ?—
Corrigere et longi ferre laboris onus.

Scribentem juvat ipse favor, minuitque laborem
Cumque suo crescens pectore fervet opus.

Corrigere at res est tanto magis ardua, quanto
Magnus Aristarcho major Homerus erat."

OVID. Epistolae ex Ponto, III., 9, 19.

""Tis irksome oft-why should I not confess
The truth ?-to face revision's lengthy toil.
The joy of writing makes the labour less,
And as it grows the work's with genius fired;
But harder by so much correction is,
As Homer greater was than Aristarch."

Saepe venit magno foenore tardus amor."

PROPERTIUS. Elegies, I., 7, 26.

"Love that comes late in life bears heavy interest."

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'Saepissime et legi et audivi nihil mali esse in morte; in qua si resideat sensus, immortalitas illa potius quam mors ducenda sit; sin sit amissus, nulla videri miseria debeat quae non sentiatur." CICERO. Ad Familiares, V., 16, 4.

"I have often read and heard that there is nothing evil in death; for, if there is a survival of consciousness, it must be considered immortality rather than death; while, if consciousness is destroyed, that can hardly be reckoned unhappiness, of which we are unconscious."

"Aut nihil est sensus animis a morte relictum

Aut mors ipsa nihil."

LUCAN. Pharsalia, III., 39.

"Either the soul's unconscious after death,

Or death itself is naught."

"(Etiam illud adjungo,) saepius ad laudem atque virtutem naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valuisse doctrinam."

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CICERO. Pro Archia, VII., 15.

"I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature."

Saepius incautae nocuit victoria turbae."

CLAUDIANUS.

De Quarto Consulatu Honorii, 336.

"Victory oft has harmed the thoughtless crowd."

"Saepius olim

Religio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta.'

LUCRETIUS. De Rerum Natura, I., 76.

"Too oft religion has the mother been
Of impious acts and criminal."

'Saepius ventis agitatur ingens
Pinus et celsae graviore casu
Decidunt turres feriuntque summos
Fulgura montes."

HORACE. Odes, II., 10, 9.

"With fiercer blasts the pine's dim height
Is rocked; proud towers with heavier fall
Crash to the ground; and thunders smite
The mountains tall."-(Conington.)

JUVENAL. Satires, XV., 164.

"Bears with bears perpetual peace maintain."-(Gifford.)

"Saevis inter se convenit ursis."

"Saevit amor ferri et scelerata insania belli,

Ira super."

VIRGIL. Eneid, VII., 461.

"Burns the fierce fever of the steel,
The guilty madness warriors feel."—(Conington.)

"Salus populi suprema lex esto."

THE TWELVE TABLES. De Officio Consulis.-(Quoted by Cicero,

de Legibus, III., 3.)

"Let the good of the people be the paramount law."

"Salve, magna parens frugum, Saturnia tellus, Magna virum." VIRGIL. Georgics, II., 173. "Hail! and all hail! thou land Saturnian, Thou mighty parent both of fruits and men."-(J. B. Rose.)