Glossary of Quotations 227 



60. Occidat matrem. Let him kill his mother, let him only reign. 

 Qui veiulam. Who preferred his aged wife to immortality. 

 Justificata est. Wisdom is justified by her offspring. 



62. Claudus in via. A lame man on the road turns the runner aside. 

 Principio sedes. First you must find a suitable place for your bees, 



one sheltered from the wind, etc. 



63. Difficile non aliquem. It is difficult to include everyone, ungrateful to 



omit anyone. 



64. Et patrum. Weakling children will proclaim the fasts of their parents 

 [i.e. lU-fed parents will produce weakling children]. 



65. Transeundum plane. One must clearly leave Vulcan for Minerva if 



one intends to discover the true fashion and structure of bodies. 



67. Hoc quemadmodum. I have a few ideas as to how this can be done, and 



many can be devised ; please be so good as to think over the matter. 



68. Nam qui erranti. For he who courteously directs one who has lost his 



way . . . 



69. Dicit piger. The sluggard saith : " There is a lion in the way." 

 Possunt quia posse. They can because they think they can. 



73. Tanquam tabula. Like a picture of a shipwreck. 



75. Caput inter nubila. She hides her head among the clouds. 

 Cremutius Cordus. Cremutius Cordus is cited as having called C. 



Cassius " the last of the Romans." 

 Curiosus in aliena republica. Busied with the affairs of a foreign state. 



76. Febris ephemera. A passing indisposition. 



A ntiquam exquirite. Seek out your mother of old. 



77. Animi nil magnes. Minds wanting no high praise. 



Non prius laudes. No sooner have we scorned praise than we cease to 

 do things worthy of praise. Postquam desiimus. After we have 

 ceased to do things worthy of praise we think it absurd to be praised. 



Memoria justi. The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of 

 the wicked shall rot. 



Felicis memoricB. Of happy, pious, and good memory. 



Borui fatna. Good reputation is the rightful possession of the dead. 

 Vita enim mortuorum. The dead continue to live in the memory of 

 the living. Iv'ffv Cwrre?. That the glory which they acquired in life 

 may be preserved to them in death. 



78. Cum ex dignitate. Since the dignity of the Roman people requires 



that we commit notable events to annals but such matters as these 

 [the erection of new buildings] to day-journals. 



79. Nosque ubi primus equis. Where the rising Sun first breathed on us 



with his panting steeds, there roseate Evening lights her tardy 

 lamps. 

 Demens qui nimbos. [And mimic] — fool that he was — the storm- 

 cloud, the thunder that no one may match. 



80. Plurimi pertransibunt. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall 



be increased. 

 82. Pictoribus. Painters and poets [have still been allowed their pencils]. 

 84. I Ham terra parens. Mother Earth, so they say, enraged with the gods, 



was delivered of her [Rumour] last, a sister to Cceus the Titan and 



his brother Enceladus. 



86. St incBqualibus. If you add equals to unequals the results will be 



unequals. 



87. QucB in eodem. Things equal to the same thing are equal to one 



another. 

 Omnia mutantur. All things change, nothing perishes. 

 Didici quod omnia. I have learned that all the works which God hath 



wrought will continue for ever; we cannot add anything to them or 



take anything away therefrom. 

 Splendet tremulo. Under her [the moon's] quivering light the sea 



glitters. 



