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In the year 496 B.C. came in the same way Demeter, Persephone, and Dionysus, identified with the old Latin Ceres, Libera, and Liber; and, a century later, Heracles, identified with the Latin Hercules.
Libera nos Domine, de morte aeterna, in die illa tremenda!" Wild with terror Varillo shook the gate more furiously than before. "Stop I tell you!" he cried "It is too soon! You are burying me before my time. You have no proof against me none! I am young, full of life and strength the world loves me wants me! and I I will not die! no I will not! not yet! Not yet I am not ready! Stop stop!
Whilst he was thus vaulting, the rogues in great astonishment said to one another, By cock's death, he is a goblin or a devil thus disguised. Ab hoste maligno libera nos, Domine, and ran away in a full flight, as if they had been routed, looking now and then behind them, like a dog that carrieth away a goose-wing in his mouth.
She had been advising him to return, she added, but she was now resolved that he should "never set foot in the Provinces again." Here the Earl, who, was present, exclaimed beating himself on the breast "a tali officio libera nos, Domine!"
Among the sins of commission which novel-writers not seldom perpetrate, is the sin of grandiloquence, or tall-talking, against which, for my part, I will offer up a special libera me. This is the sin of schoolmasters, governesses, critics, sermoners, and instructors of young or old people. Does he not stop perpetually in his story and begin to preach to you?
The ecclesiatics chanted a psalm, the Libera nos and the De profundis. The whole service lasted about twenty minutes. There was but one mourning coach, which the priest and chorister agreed to share with Eugene and Christophe. "There is no one else to follow us," remarked the priest, "so we may as well go quickly, and so save time; it is half-past five."
Laurent, where Ste.-Marie-Liberatrice rises upon the site of the Temple of Vesta 'Sancta Maria, libera nos a poenis inferni' Montfanon always added when he spoke of it, and he pointed out the Arch of Titus, which tells of the fulfilment of the prophecies of Our Lord against Jerusalem, while, opposite, the groves reveal the out lines of a nunnery upon the ruins of the dwellings of the Caesars.
Finally, that they, the brethren, might not be without a memento mori, was a sepulchre or altar tomb, likewise in crust, and when the top was broken, a goodly number of pigeons lurked beneath, lying in state: "Which mop and mow, and chatter like starlings, but all, either naught in sense or naughty in meaning, oh these chattering goblins. Be not like them, my brethren libera nos Domine."
Do you care, gentle reader, to be reminded that just before this visit Alfieri had heard in Venice of the "peace between England and the United Colonies," and that he then and there "wrote the fifth ode of the 'America Libera," and thus finished that poem?
'De Saevitia Teutonorum qui veniunt in pandis myoparonibus, libera nos, Domine! Scarce had he finished, when a startled brother approached rapidly a-tiptoe and touched the Prior gently on the shoulder. 'They come, Holy Prior! They come! the cruel heathen can be seen swiftly approaching in their long ships. Prior Olaf turned ashen pale.
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