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"Oh, but I say, you don't like Latin, though, do you?" said Tom, lowering his voice confidentially. "Pretty well; I don't care much about it," said Philip. "Ah, but perhaps you haven't got into the Propria quae maribus," said Tom, nodding his head sideways, as much as to say, "that was the test; it was easy talking till you came to that."
Birds seek their nests when the night falls beasts hasten to their lairs man bolts his door. `Propria quae maribus, as Herodotus hath it; which, when translated, means, that `such is the nature of mankind. `Tribuuntur mascula dicas, `Tell me your troubles, as Homer says."
The only question is, whom you will get to put into them." "True," said the squire, with much gravity. "Yes, there it is!" said the parson, mournfully. "If you would but learn 'non quieta movere'!" "Don't spout your Latin at me, Parson," cried the squire, angrily; "I can give you as good as you bring, any day. "'Propria quae maribus tribuuntur mascula dicas.
I was not very high in the school: not having been able to get farther than that dreadful Propria quae maribus in the Latin grammar, of which, though I have it by heart even now, I never could understand a syllable: but, on account of my size, my age, and the prayers of my mother, was allowed to have the privilege of the bigger boys, and on holidays to walk about in the town.
He kept them very close at their studies, and when the latter was six years old, I do assure you, sir, he could say his Propria quae maribus better than I can. He was very fond of his studies, much more so than Master Francis had been, and was astonishingly forward for his years. So my lord loved him better and better, and would scarcely ever suffer him to be out of his sight."
Catharine tells many trifling, but interesting incidents, of various nature, in these Memoirs: of how, after the birth of her first child, she was left utterly alone and neglected, so that she famished with thirst for the lack of some one to bring her water; how her child was taken from her at its birth, and kept from her, she hardly being allowed even to see it; how it was always wrapped in fox-skins and seal-skins, till it lay in a continual bath of perspiration; how the members of the royal family itself were so badly accommodated, that sometimes they were made ill by walking through passages open to wind and rain, and sometimes stifled by over-crowded rooms; how at the imperial masquerades, during one season, the men were ordered to appear in women's dresses, and the women in the propria quae maribus, the former hideous in large whaleboned petticoats and high feathered head-dresses, the latter looking like scrubby little boys with very thick legs, and all that the Empress Elizabeth might show her tall and graceful figure and what beautiful things she used to walk with, which Catharine says were the handsomest that she ever saw; how in this court, where marriage was the mere shadow of a bond, it was yet deemed a matter of the first nuptial importance that a lady of the court should have her head dressed for the wedding by the hands of the Empress herself, or, if she were too ill, by those of the Grand Duchess; how Catharine used, at Oranienbaum, to dress herself from head to foot in male attire, and go out in a skiff, accompanied only by an old huntsman, to shoot ducks and snipe, sometimes doubling the Cape of Oranienbaum, which extends two versts into the sea, and how thus the fortunes of the Russian Empire, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, were at the mercy of a spring-tide, a gust of wind, or the tipping of a shallop.
His wounds are repaired by the same process of healing; and the stumps left after the amputation of his limbs, especially during an early embryonic period, occasionally possess some power of regeneration, as in the lowest animals. Mares e diversis generibus Quadrumanorum sine dubio dignoscunt feminas humanas a maribus. Primum, credo, odoratu, postea aspectu. Mr.
Montaigne, Tasso, and Cervantes were born within the same fourteen years; and in England, while Spenser was still delving over the propria que maribus, and Raleigh launching paper navies, Shakspeare was stretching his baby hands for the moon, and the little Bacon, chewing on his coral, had discovered that impenetrability was one quality of matter.
Birds seek their nests when the night falls beasts hasten to their lairs man bolts his door. 'Propria quæ maribus, as Herodotus hath it; which, when translated, means, that 'such is the nature of mankind. 'Tribuuntur mascula dicas' 'Tell me your troubles, as Homer says."
Gonz. Fern. Ovied. I. 2. c. 3. Plin. I. 9. c. 58. de Maribus Nili. Joan. Leo Afric. I. 9. de Nilo. Our author has got into a strange dilemma, by confounding crocodiles and serpents under one denomination. Plin. and Leo, ub. cit. Plin. I. 2. c. 67. Plin. I. 6. c. 31. This subject will be discussed in the Fifth Part of our work; being much too extensive to admit of elucidation in a note.
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