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The Indian proved to a nicety: "medio tutissimus ibis." Shortly after this it rained almost day and night, the lightning flashing incessantly and the roar of thunder awful beyond expression. The fever returned, and pressed so heavy on him that to all appearance his last day's march was over.
"It is my unpleasant duty to tell you that you certainly have," said the Doctor, gravely. "As plainly indicated as I ever saw it. Furthermore, it is seriously complicated with fiat justitia ruat caelum, with strong hints of the presence of in media tutissimus ibis." "Great Scott! can I ever get well?" groaned poor Jake.
In each of the angles were, respectively, a picture of a dagger, a revolver and a gun. On top appeared this: "In Medio tutissimus ibis" "Don't seem to mean anything as far as I've ever been able to make out," Mr. Liggins said. "Looks like a cross between a secret order card and a notice from the vigilance committee.
In medio tutissimus ibis is eminently true of the cultivation of character, and some of its best elements become pernicious in their extremes.
Some schools I name no names go in for mere scholastic recitations which nobody understands, and the boys hate. Others burst out in full-blown theatricals. King's College acts on the motto, Medio tutissimus ibis. It keeps the old scholastic recitations, but gilds the pill by adding the accessory of costume. I can quote Latin as well as Dr.
Extreme brevity will degenerate into epigrammatism; but the sin of extreme length is even more unpardonable. In medio tutissimus ibis.
He must speak "the language of just indignation." He gladly testified to the consideration with which Douglas was wont to treat the South, but he warned the young Senator from Illinois that the old adage "in medio tutissimus ibis" might lead him astray.
Stick to your cups, but forbear, as Milton says, "to interpose them oft." In medio tutissimus, Half a noggin is better than no wine. For the sake of the dear old times, spare me the pain of seeing you a reformed inebriate or a Martha Washington! Between Drunken Barnaby and Neal Dow there is, I trust, a position which a gentleman may occupy.
In this particular work we may derive a most instructive lesson, that in certain points, as of religion in relation to law, the 'medio tutissimus ibis' is inapplicable.
But, alas! the Evangelical divine, instead of combating the devil, occupies himself in fighting his bishop, and the Newmanite, instead of striving to save sinners, prefers to 'curse and quit' his church. Don't ask me therefore which is right; I tell you, they are both wrong." "Exactly," sais he. "In medio tutissimus ibis."
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