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The investigation consequently remained buried in obscurity. A competitor, however, equally daring and more fortunate audax fortunâ adjutus, as Gauss said of him was even then entering the field. Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, the son of a small Government employé in Normandy, was born at Saint-Lô, March 11, 1811.
procero qui natu maximus hæres Corpore, progressus cùm pubertatis ad annos Esset, res gessit multas iuueniliter audax, Asciscens comites quo spar sibi iunxerat ætas, Nil tamen iniustè commisit, nil tamen vnquam Extra virtutis normam, sapientibus æquè Ac aliis charus.
It was cut into a bloodstone, and showed a stag's head, surmounted by five pointed rays, like a crown of daggers. "I cannot decipher the motto," he said; "what is it?" "Fortis et audax." "Hum! 'Strong and bold. A stiff-necked legend, too." He reached to his bookcase for Burke's "General Armoury." After a brief search, he asked: "Do you know anything about heraldry?" "Nothing whatever."
The movement was delayed until half a hundred guns were playing upon Vaalkrantz and the chance of a celer et audax exploit was lost. At 2 p.m.
The phrase, verbis felicissime audax, used of Horace as a lyric poet by Quintilian, expresses, with something less than that fine critic's usual accuracy, another quality which goes far to make the merit of the Odes.
Yet subsequent events showed that Lord Roberts would have made a good bargain if he could have exchanged all the burghers and the guns, and all the loot of horses, cattle, and sheep, for one man who had slipped through Slabbert's Nek on July 15, 1900. Nec Celer nec Audax Lord Roberts had almost as much difficulty in bringing Buller out of Ladysmith as he had had in putting him into it.
On the leaves are roughly carved symbolic crests and mottoes for the three regiments: A Maltese Cross and Celer et Audax for the 60th Rifles; crossed swords and Stout and Steady for the Gurkhas; and crossed Afghan knives with Rough and Ready for the Guides. On this latter leaf may be seen standing a cigar-lighter made out of grapeshot picked up in camp during the siege.
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