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The whole language of this sentence is poetical, e.g. the use of the inf. after persuaseris, of annum for annuam mensem, the sense of vocare and mereri, &c. Vocare, i.e. provocare, cf. H. 4, 80, and Virg. Geor. 4, 76. Mereri, earn, deserve, i.e. by bravery. Pigrum et iners. Piger est natura ad laborem tardus; iners, in quo nihil artis et virtutis. K. Render: a mark of stupidity and incapacity.

But isn't the jug just as good for the sperits, yer honers?" "Well, well; boiling mutton broth over a turf fire, in my cut decanter! 'optat ephippia bos piger. That'll do, Judy, that'll do." And the old woman retreated with a look of injured innocence. Father John sniffed the whiskey. "'Fumum bibere institutæ; it's the right smell of the smoke.

"Come, come, Mr. Saddletree," said his wife, "we'll hae nae confessions and condescendences here; let them deal in thae sort o' wares that are paid for them they suit the like o' us as all as a demipique saddle would suit a draught ox." "Aha!" said Mr. Butler, "Optat ephippia bos piger, nothing new under the sun But it was a fair hit of Mrs. Saddletree, however."

An ironical smile passed over the lips of the commonwealth attorney. "You ought to know me well enough," he said, "to be sure that I have never interfered with your duties and privileges. I am nothing but a good old fellow, a friend of peace and of studies. "'Sum piger et senior, Pieridumque comes." "Then," exclaimed M. Seneschal, "nothing keeps us here any longer.

In all the various paths of human existence, that appear to have something in them splendid and alluring, there are perpetual instances of daring adventures, unattended with the smallest rational hope of success. Optat ephippia bos piger. All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.

"Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus." By this course a man shall never improve himself, nor arrive at any perfection in anything. He must, therefore, make it his business always to put the architect, the painter, the statuary, every mechanic artisan, upon discourse of their own capacities.

The vice-admiral was the Santa Anna, of 300 men, commanded by Captain Alvarez de Piger, who had before taken an English ship in the South Sea, and this ship cost 150,000 ducats, being the handsomest that had ever been seen in Peru.

She had so bright a face that Master Jacques Tribouillard, doctor in law and a renowned cosmographer, who was often a visitor at her house, was used to tell her: "Seeing you, madame, I deem credible and even hold it proven, what Cucurbitus Piger lays down in one of his scholia on Strabo, to wit, that the famous city and university of Paris was of old known by the name of Lutetia or Leucecia, or some such like word coming from Leukê, that is to say, 'the white, forasmuch as the ladies of the same had bosoms white as snow, yet not so clear and bright and white as is your own, madame."

"Come, come, Mr. Saddletree," said his wife, "we'll hae nae confessions and condescendences here; let them deal in thae sort o' wares that are paid for them they suit the like o' us as all as a demipique saddle would suit a draught ox." "Aha!" said Mr. Butler, "Optat ephippia bos piger, nothing new under the sun But it was a fair hit of Mrs. Saddletree, however."