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Then the two young men drew near to the closed window; the shutters were tightly barred, and across the panels was scrawled in red, in an uncertain hand, the words CLAUDIT ET NEMO APERIT, which Mark explained was the Latin for the text, He shutteth and none openeth. And then Mark said that the story went that it was ill for the man that opened the window, and that shut it should remain for him.
"`Those who go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters; `Et vastas aperit Syrtes; `These men see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. `Alternante vorans vasta Charybdis aqua. `For at his word the stormy wind ariseth, which lifteth up the waves thereof. `Surgens a puppi ventus.
Becket has taken him to develop; and it is truly surprizing to behold how beautiful he comes forth as the editor proceeds in unrolling those unseemly and unnatural rags in which he has hitherto been so disgracefully wrapped: Tandem aperit vultum, et tectoria prima reponit, Incipit agnosci! Mr. Becket has favoured us, in the Preface, with a comparative estimate of the merits of his predecessors.
"Aristoni tragico actori rem aperit: huic et genus et fortuna honesta erant: nec ars, quia nihil tale apud Graecos pudori est, ea deformabat." Nay, I have always taxed those with impertinence who condemn these entertainments, and with injustice those who refuse to admit such comedians as are worth seeing into our good towns, and grudge the people that public diversion.
At the epoch indicated, the first constellation of the zodiac was not, as now, the Fishes, nor, as when a fresh departure was made by Hipparchus, the Ram, but the Bull, a trace of which is found in Virgil's words Candidus auratis aperit cum cornibus annum Taurus.
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