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We swear by Christ: but what do we do but blaspheme him, when we swear 'Per Christum tollo eum, 'I will make away with him, 'Per Christum hunc jugulo, 'I will cut his throat, and then believe ourselves bound to commit the murder which we have vowed? . . . 'The Saxons, he says, 'are fierce, the Franks faithless, the Gepidae inhuman, the Huns shameless.
Part 5. p. 95. In jugulo causa, c. 5. Crenius, Anim. phil. Part 5. p. 85. Lett. 265. Lett. 545. Lett. 538. Amb. l. 1. p. 95. Polihist. l. 1. c. 24. Pope Blount, p. 946. Supplement de Moreri. Ep. 21. p. 45. Ep. 229. p. 78. Ep. 697. p. 964. Ep. Sarr. 165. Ep. 163. p. 168. In Crenii Anim. Phil. & Hist. t. 1. p. 23. XXVI. It remains that we should relate what we know of Grotius's family.
T. How is “mihi” governed, if it does not come after “accessit”? C. pauses, then, “Mihi” … “mihi” is often used so; and “tibi” and “sibi”: I mean “suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo”; … “venit mihi in mentem”; that is, it came into my mind; and so, “accessit mihi ad tollendam,” etc. T. That is very right. C. I recollect somewhere in Horace, vellunt tibi barbam. Etc., etc.
And yet the recent memory of his example served to preserve Monsieur d'Anguien from the same misfortune at the battle of Serisoles. 'Tis dangerous to attack a man you have deprived of all means to escape but by his arms, for necessity teaches violent resolutions: "Gravissimi sunt morsus irritatae necessitatis." "Vincitur haud gratis, jugulo qui provocat hostem."
It was not enough for them to fight and to die bravely, but cheerfully too; insomuch that they were hissed and cursed if they made any hesitation about receiving their death. The very girls themselves set them on: "Consurgit ad ictus, Et, quoties victor ferrum jugulo inserit, illa Delicias ait esse suas, pectusque jacentis Virgo modesta jubet converso pollice rumpi."