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But hostilis exercitus in the MSS. and earliest editions. Infesta is here active: hostile inroads of the enemy's forces. In partem virium. For, i.e. as a part of his force. Impelleretur, was borne on with rapid and resistless power. Profunda adversa. Cf. note, 6: inania honoris. Mixti copiis et laetitia. Uniting their stores and their pleasures, i.e. their respective means of entertainment.
And this was the view of Petrus Thyraeus, S.J., in his Loca Infesta . The alternative is to believe in neither. We have thus, according to the advice of Socrates, permitted the argument to lead us whither it would. And whither has it led us?
Haec spes immodicas premit, haec infesta superbis Imminet, huic celsas hominum contundere mentes Incessusque datum et nimios turbare paratus. Quam veteres Nemesin genitam de nocte silenti Oceano discere patri. Stant sidera fronti. Frena manu pateramque gerit, semperque verendum Ridet et insanis obstat contraria coeptis.
"Iam iam non domus accipiet te Iaeta, neque uxor Optima, nee dulces occurrent oscula nati Praeripere et tacita pectus dulcedine tangent: Non poteris factis florentibus esse, tuisque Praesidium: misero misere" aiunt, "omnia ademit Una dies infesta tibi tot praemia vitae...."
His work, published at Cologne in 1598, is a quarto of 352 pages, entitled, 'Loca Infesta; That is, Concerning Places Haunted by Mischievous Spirits of Demons and of the Dead.
Never did any one prepare to bid adieu to the world more absolutely and unreservedly, and to shake hands with all manner of interest in it, than I expect to do. The deadest deaths are the best: "'Miser, O miser, aiunt, 'omnia ademit Una dies infesta mihi tot praemia vitae." And the builder, "Manuet," says he, "opera interrupta, minaeque Murorum ingentes."
Ac plerique suam ipsi vitam narrare fiduciam potius morum, quam arrogantiam arbitrati sunt: nec id Rutilio et Scauro citra fidem aut obtrectationi fuit: adeo virtutes iisdem temporibus optime aestimantur, quibus facillime gignuntur. At nunc narraturo mihi vitam defuncti hominis, venia opus fuit: quam non petissem incursaturus tam saeva et infesta virtutibus tempora.
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