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It was at Rome a signification of favour to depress and turn in the thumbs: "Fautor utroque tuum laudabit pollice ludum:" and of disfavour to elevate and thrust them outward: "Converso pollice vulgi, Quemlibet occidunt populariter." The Romans exempted from war all such as were maimed in the thumbs, as having no more sufficient strength to hold their weapons.

"Judicavique te bello violari, contra cujus honorem, populi Romani beneficio concessum, inimici atque invidi niterentur. Sed ut eo tempore non modo ipse fautor dignitatis tuae fui, verum etiam caeteris auctor ad te adjuvandum, sic me nunc Pompeii dignitas vehementer movet," etc. Cicero to Caesar, enclosed in a letter to Atticus, ix. 11. Enclosed to Atticus, viii. 11.

"Then is your University an open fautor of heretics," retorted the Primate, "if it suffers not the Catholic truth to be proclaimed within its bounds." The royal Council supported the Archbishop's injunction, but the publication of the decrees at once set Oxford on fire. The scholars threatened death against the friars, "crying that they wished to destroy the University."

"I grieve you should think so, Master Heriot," answered the duke; "I only meant, by my homage, to claim your protection, sir your patronage. You are become, I understand, a solicitor of suits a promoter an undertaker a fautor of court suitors of merit and quality, who chance to be pennyless. I trust your bags will bear you out in your new boast."

Further, we know not from one day to another whether we may not be absolutely necessitated to excommunicate that fautor of Gallicanism, Louis the Fourteenth, and before launching our bolt at a king, we may think well to test its efficacy upon a rat. Fiat experimentum. And now to return to our rats, from which we have ratted. Is there indeed no hope?"