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What picture of the Grove of Love can equal that of the Italian poet for such we take him to be of the twelfth century? 'Immortalis fieret Ibi manens homo; Arbor ibi quaelibet Suo gaudet pomo; Viae myrrha, cinnamo Fragrant, et amomo Conjectari poterat Dominus ex domo' etc.
"Eo quod," saith the text, "fratribus, et propinquis violentiam intulerit, et nepotem suum, quern ipse liberate poterat, interfici permiserit": "Because he used violence to his brothers and kinsmen, and suffered his nephew to be slain whom he might have delivered." Yet did he that which few kings do; namely, repent him of his cruelty.
Nor is his moral earnestness inferior. The end of life is indeed nominally pleasure, "dux vitae dia voluptas;" but really it is a pure heart, "At bene non poterat sine puro pectore vivi." He who first showed the way to this was the true deity. The contemplation of eternal law will produce, not as the strict Epicureans say, indifference, but resignation.
The trial was not held in Greece. He was fond of such poetical turns. Nec poterat quemquam placidi pellacia ponti Subdola pellicere in fraudem ridentibus undis. Comp. Tacit. See the Life of Sulla, c. 6 notes. It commenced at Rome and ran in nearly a direct line to Terracina across the Pomptine marshes.
There is no vermin in the land like him: he slanders both heaven and earth with pretended dearths when there is no cause of scarcity. He hoarding in a dear year, is like Erysicthon's bowels in Ovid: Quodque urbibus esset, quodque satis poterat populo, non sufficit uni.
Anton. a Sancto Joseph, in his notes on this passage, is anxious to save the Thomist doctrine that one of the Divine Persons cannot be seen without the other, and so he says that the Saint speaks of the Three Persons as she saw Them not as They are in Themselves. 2 Maccab. ix. 10, 12: "Eum nemo poterat propter intolerantiam foetoris portare, . . . . nec ipse jam foetorem suum ferre posset."
When his scholars were caught flirting with the damsel, they were wont to excuse themselves by saying that they were only "commenting on the works of Cujas." On this the following epigram was composed: "Videras immensos Cujaci labores AEternum patri commeruisse decus: Ingenio haud poterat tam magnum aequare parentem Filia; quod potuit corpore fecit opus."
These instead of advancing, go back, as I said before. So, throughout, experience and discretion are necessary. May our Lord, of His goodness, bestow them on us! See Inner Fortress, vi. 7, section 4. This opinion is supposed to be justified by the words of St. Thomas, 3 Sent. dist. 22, qu. 3, art. 1, ad quintum. "Corporalis praesentia Christi in duobus poterat esse nociva.
Quis enim inhibere poterat tantae multitudinis importabilem impulsum? At vero imperium nostrum tot et tantis confertum barbaris saucians, sauciatumque, adeo vt non modicam in eos moueret perturbationem, obstupentes perseuerant iam ipsius, et non remittebatur, bene iuuante deo, campum obtinuit. Neque locum illum scandere aduersarios permisit, in quo dimicauit cum barbaris.
It was, therefore, necessary that a cause should be given for this supreme gleaming amid the general mists of the dull and heavy Chronicle of de Quero; Muratori, accordingly, very properly dispels the wonder of the reader by informing him that he is "here listening to Poggio writing, and in a style," he adds, "which Reduxis was about the last man to imitate": "itaque heic audis Poggium scribentem, et quidem stylo, quem aequare Redusius minime gentium poterat."
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