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Maxima debetur pueris reverentia, and still more to damsels; but if boys and girls will never go where they will hear more to injure them than they will usually do amidst the ordinary conversation of a hunting field, the maxima reverentia will have been attained.

Juvenal, vi, 434-440. Cf. Martial, ii, 90: sit mihi verna satur, sit non doctissima coniunx. The famous verses of Martial: Quid tibi nobiscum, ludi scelerate magister? Invisum pueris virginibusque caput! Severus, 44. Pliny, Paneg., 26. Spartianus, Hadrian, 7, 8-9. Capitolinus, Anton. Pius 8; id. M. Anton. Phil. II. Lampridius, Alex. Severus, 57. Pliny, Letters, vii, 18.

"If I talk French, 'tis because, look you, maxima debetur pueris reverentia! We have made up our minds, Brandolaccio and I, that the little girl shall turn out well, and go straight." "When she is turned fifteen," remarked Chilina's uncle, "I'll find a good husband for her. I have one in my eye already." "Shall you make the proposal yourself?" said Orso. "Of course!

Hence the exclamation of "Reverentia pueris," which the chaplain had addressed to his neighbour at the ordinary on Harry's first appearance there. Mr. Sampson, if he had not strength sufficient to do right himself, at least had grace enough not to offend innocent young gentlemen by his cynicism.

'Ut nox longa, quibus Mentitur arnica, diesque Longa videtur opus debentibus, ut piger Annus Pupillis, quos dura premit Custodia matrum, Sic mihi Tarda fluunt ingrataque Tempora, quae spem Consiliumque morantur agendi Gnaviter, id quod AEque pauperibus prodest, Locupletibus aque, AEque neglectum pueris senibusque nocebit. Hor.

Men of a severe and sententious morality have not always sufficiently observed this caution; nor have they been duly aware of the corruptions they flattered, by the satire they employed against what is aspiring and prominent in the character of the human soul. I, demens, et saevos curre per Alpes, Ut pueris placeas, et declamatio fias,

I take it for granted that every Englishman who can call himself a man that is, every man who has been an English boy, and, as such, been compelled to the use of his fists knows what a "mill" is. But I sing not only "pueris," but "virginibus."

And Plato, having invited her to his feast, we see after how gentle and obliging a manner, accommodated both to time and place, she entertained the company, though in a discourse of the highest and most important nature: "Aeque pauperibus prodest, locupletibus aeque; Et, neglecta, aeque pueris senibusque nocebit."

The name of religion, be it good or bad that is ruinated, God neuer suffers vnreuenged, He say of it as Ouid sayd of Eunuchs: Qui primus pueris genitalia membra recidit Vulnera qua fecit deduit ipse pati. Who first depriude yong boies of their best part, With selfe same wounds he gaue he ought to smart.

You’ve been a little headstrong, I can’t deny, and had your fling in your own way; but ‘nuces pueris,’ as you will soon be saying yourself on a certain occasion. Your next business is to consider what kind of a marriage you propose. I suppose the Roman, but there is great room for choice even there.” It is a proverb how different things are in theory and when reduced to practice.