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He also recovered some property that had been taken away. Before consecration he had been compelled to profess publicly that he had had nothing to do with the murder of Archbishop Becket: "Mortem S. Thomæ Archiepiscopi neque verbo neque facto neque scripto scienter procuravit." He became very wealthy. He died in 1189 at Winchester, whither he had gone to welcome King Richard.
QUI: = quo modo, as in 4. ANIMO CONSISTERE: so in pro Quint. 77; also mente consistere in Phil. 2, 68; Div. 2, 149; Q. Fr. 2, 3, 2 neque mente neque lingua neque ore consistere. The word is, literally, 'to stand firm', 'to get a firm foothold'. L. BRUTUM: fell in single combat with Aruns, son of the exiled Tarquin; see Liv. 2, 6.
Strange words these to fall from a pleader's lips in the dusty atmosphere of the praetor's court! non fori, neque iudiciali consuetudine, says Cicero himself, in the few words of graceful apology with which the speech ends. But, in truth, as he well knew, he was not speaking to the respectable gentlemen on the benches before him. He addressed a larger audience; posterity, and the civilised world.
"Nec, quæ sulfureis ardet fornacibus, Ætne Ignea semper erit; neque enim fuit ignea semper. Nam, sive est animal tellus, et vivit, habetque Spiramenta locis flammam exhalantia multis; Spirandi mutare vias, quotiesque movetur, Has finire potest, illas aperire cavernas: Sive leves imis venti cohibentur in antris; Saxaque cum saxis...." Ibid., 340. Strabo, lib. vi. Tacitus, lib. vi. 16, 20.
They have, indeed, received the usual writ of election; but that writ, alas! was malicious mockery: they were insulted with the form, but denied the reality, for there was one man excepted from their choice: "Non de vi, neque cæde, nec veneno, Sed lis est mihi de tribus capellis." The character of the man, thus fatally excepted, I have no purpose to delineate.
It pretends that he swam with one hand, and carried his Commentaries, holding them above water, with the other. As if a general would take his MSS. with him into a hot action! "Neque provinciarum injurias condonari iis posse qui fuissent in se officiosi." De Bello Alexandrino, 70.
It was many a long year," he said, "since Fordun had quoted as an ancient proverb, 'Neque dives, neque fortis, sed nec sapiens Scotus, praedominante invidia, diu durabit in terra."
Sampson, are these three hours entirely spent inconstruing and translating? 'Doubtless, no; we have also colloquial intercourse to sweeten study: neque semper arcum tendit apollo. The querist proceeded to elicit from this Galloway Phoebus what their discourse chiefly turned upon. 'Upon our past meetings at Ellangowan; and, truly, I think very often we discourse concerning Miss Lucy, for Mr.
Qua in re decernenda cum ego casu non affuissem, sensissemque id equestrem ordinem ferre moleste, neque aperte dicere: objurgavi senatum, ut mihi visus sum, summa cum auctoritate, et in causa non verecunda admodum gravis et copiosus fui." To Atticus, i. 17. A nickname under which Cicero often speaks of Pompey.
Notice the imperfects esset ... haberet ... posset accommodated to the tense of persuasi above, although the other subjunctives in the sentence are not; cf. n. on 42 efficeret. NEQUE ... DISSIMILE: in modern phraseology the whole of this clause would be briefly expressed thus, 'and was homogeneous'. POSSET: quod si ='whereas if', the subject of posset being animus, and dividi being understood.
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