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25. Nil sacri es. There is nothing sacred about you. 



Devita profanas. Avoid profane and vain babblings and oppositions 

 of science, falsely so called. 



26. Verhorum minutiis. He destroys the balance of things with the 



minutiae of words. 



27. Quastionum minutiis. They break up the bulk of knowledge with 



pettifogging questions. 

 Return pondera. He upset the balance of fact with trifling opinions. 

 Candida succinctam. Girt about her white loins with howling monsters. 

 Verba ista. These are the words of futile old men. 



28. Percontatorem fugito. Flee the inquisitive man, for he is a prattler. 

 Fingunt simul. They promptly believe whatever they imagine. 



30. Oportet discentem. The learner must believe [what he is told]. 



31. Oportet edoctum. He who has been taught should judge for himself. 

 State super vias. Stand ye in the ancient ways and see which is the 



straight and good way, and walk therein. 

 Antiquitas saculi. The antiquity of the age is the youth of the world. 



32. Nil aliud. Nothing other than having dared to despise vain things. 



33. Hie ab arte. This man stuck fast by his own art. 



Qui respiciunt. They who have few things in view express an opinion 

 about something quite simple. 



34. Nil tarn metuens. Fearing nothing so much as that he might seem in 



doubt upon any subject. 



35. Declinat cursus. She turns aside and picks up the golden ball. 



36. Fidelia vulnera. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses ol 



an enemy are deceitful. 

 39. Qui extendit. Who stretcheth out the north over empty space and 



hangeth the earth upon nothing. 

 Spiritus ejus. His spirit hath adorned the heavens, and the winding 



serpent hath been brought forth by his guiding hand. 

 Nunquid conjungere. Canst thou bind together the bright stars of the 



Pleiades, or dissolve the circuit of the Bear ? 

 Qui facit Arcturum. Who maketh the Bear, and Orion, and the 



Hyades, and the chambers of the south? 

 A nnon sicut lac. Hast thou not stirred me like milk, and curdled me 



like cheese? 

 Habet argentum. Silver has its mine ; and there is a place wherein gold 



is melted down, iron is taken from the earth, and brass is melted out 



of stone. 

 44. Neque semper. Nor doth Apollo for ever draw his bow. 



Telis, Phoebe. Avenge our [the Greeks'] tears, Phoebus, with thine 



arrows. 

 47. Quomodo A ugustus. As was Augustus, so also shall be Antoninus. 

 49. Plus erat. His unwillingness to accept was more than the other's 



power to give. 

 'Ixoip. olds Trip re <5^«. Ichor, such as runs in the veins of the blessed gods. 



52. Verba sapientium. The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails 



driven in deep. 



53. Non Rex sum. I am not King, but Cassar. 



55. Scilicet ingenuas. Careful application to the liberal arts inevitably 



softens men's manners. 



Nil novi. There is nothing new upon earth. 



'Eotxev. tS dydpes. It appears, gentlemen, that while we were con- 

 quering Darius here [in Asia], back there in Arcadia there was a 

 battle of mice and frogs. 



56. Felix qui potuit. Happy the man who has been able to learn the true 



causes of events, and who has trodden underfoot all fears, inexorable 

 fate, and the noise of greedy Acheron. 



57. Victorque volentes. Victor, he gives laws to willing peoples and follows 



the road to Olympus. 



