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The one whose name you draw will do the honors to the Cochin-China Emperor's white elephant." The two foes turned round toward the window. Lorand gazed out, while Gyáli played with his watch-chain. The child unsuspectingly stepped up to the hat that served as the "urna sortis," and drew out one of the pieces of paper. He opened it and read the name, "Lorand Áronffy."
Etruscos celebrare viros, testudinis arcus, Urna, tholus, statuæ, templa, domusque petunt.
The epigrams upon his death, in the form of epitaphs, dealt most terribly with "his ignominious memory" as Burchard has it. Of these the Master of Ceremonies collected upwards of a score, which he gives in his Diarium. "Hac Janus Baptista jacet Ferrarius urna, Terra habuit corpus, Bos bona, Styx animam."
But as to death, it is inevitable: "Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium Versatur urna serius ocius Sors exitura, et nos in aeternum Exilium impositura cymbae." All must to eternal exile sail away." and, consequently, if it frights us, 'tis a perpetual torment, for which there is no sort of consolation. There is no way by which it may not reach us.
Sir Robert Filmer, Camden's friend, states that the English historian sent all that he was not suffered to print to his correspondent Thuanus, who printed it all faithfully in his annals without altering a word. On the tomb of our next author stands the epitaph Urna capit cineres, nomen non orbe tenetur.
This spot was at first destined for a monument to Christopher Columbus whose ashes, after the cession of the Spanish part of St. Domingo, were brought to the island of Cuba.* On the tomb is the following inscription: O restos y Imagen del grande Colon; Mil siglos duran guardados en la Urna, Y en remembranca de nuestra Nacion.
In the midst of the gay verses of that genial 'bon vivant' Horace, there stands one dreary word whose utter sadness goes to one's heart. It is the word 'exilium' in the well-known passage Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium Versatur urna serius ocius Sors exitura et nos in aeternum Exilium impositura cymbae.
Jam pueris pellem succinctus et aenophorum aptas; Ocyus ad Navem. Nil obstat quin trabe vasta AEgaeum rapias, nisi solers Luxuria ante Seductum moneat; quo deinde, insane ruis? Quo? Quid tibi vis? Calido sub pectore mascula bilis Intumuit, quam non extinxerit urna cicutae? Tun' mare transilias? Tibi torta cannabe fulto Coena sit in transtro?
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