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'Audiit, et voti Phoebus succedere partem Mente dedit; partem volucres dispersit in auras; which, as he added, 'is weel rendered into English metre by my friend Bangour: Ae half the prayer wi' Phoebus grace did find, The t'other half he whistled down the wind. The conflicting passions and exhausted feelings of Waverley had resigned him to late but sound repose.
Sternunt se somno diversae in littore phocae; which might be rendered, Here phocae slumber on the beach, Within our Highland Hector's reach. Nay, if you grow angry, I have done. Besides, I see old Edie in the court-yard, with whom I have business. Good-bye, Hector Do you remember how she splashed into the sea like her master Proteus, et se jactu dedit aequor in altum?"
From the small inn-keeper to the great capitalist, every man of business needed to be perfectly at home in reckoning sums of money. The humbler inhabitants of the Empire had long been growing familiar with the Roman aptitude for arithmetic. Grais ingenium, Grais dedit ore rotundo Musa loqui, praeter laudem nullius avaris. Romani pueri longis rationibus assem discunt in partes centum diducere.
It breathes the insolence of the conqueror mingled with a barbarous humour embodied in a play on words for "Asturis" has a double reference to the kite and to the place "Astura," at which the fugitive Princes were captured: "Asturis ungue Leo Pullum rapiens Aquilinum Hic deplumavit, acephalumque dedit."
'Audiit, et voti Phoebus succedere partem Mente dedit; partem volucres dispersit in auras; which, as he added, 'is weel rendered into English metre by my friend Bangour: Ae half the prayer wi' Phoebus grace did find, The t'other half he whistled down the wind. The conflicting passions and exhausted feelings of Waverley had resigned him to late but sound repose.
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