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Attention! That finely dressed gentleman is not a physician but a homeopathist sui generis he professes completely the similis similibus. The young cavalry captain with him is his chosen disciple.
These poor people have never yet been suspected of such atrocities, and surely they were not perpetrated in the world before the Flood." 1 This homely adage is far more expressive than the Latin one: "Parcit Cognates maculis, similis fera." Juv.
Their minds are vacant, their imagination dull, their spirits poor, and so they are driven to the company of those like them for similis simili gaudet where they make common pursuit of pastime and entertainment, consisting for the most part in sensual pleasure, amusement of every kind, and finally, in excess and libertinism.
This is because it wants to read only what has just been printed, and because similis simili gaudet, and it finds the shallow, insipid gossip of some stupid head of to-day more homogeneous and agreeable than the thoughts of great minds.
Et tamen dux ille Graeciae nusquam optat ut Aiacis similis habeat decem, sed ut Nestoris, quod si sibi acciderit, non dubitat quin brevi sit Troia peritura. 32 Sed redeo ad me.
On January 19 they reached Marseilles, and two days later they embarked on that dreary winter voyage, so pleasant at an earlier season, for Civita Vecchia; and on the 20th they rolled into the Eternal City, with such sensations as one may imagine. Nemo similis Homeri. There is nothing like the charm of a first visit to Rome.
In Tusc. 4, 41 and Off. 1, 87 we find similiter ut si in Fin. 2, 21 and 4, 31 similiter or similis et si, in N.D. 3, 8 similiter ac si, also in Liv. 5, 5, 12 dissimilia ac si, in 35, 42, 10 idem ac si. As regards the ut after similes, we may compare a few passages in which simul ut appears for simul ac, see Reid's n. on Academ 2, 51.
As he stood in ecstasy she saw him at the end of the lane, and blushing drew back with a finger in her mouth, to thrill and giggle at ease. She saw a great gentleman stare; he saw a rosy goddess stoop and laugh, then blush and hide. Vitas hinnuleo me similis, Chloe!
For my own part, I cannot without grief see so much as an innocent beast pursued and killed that has no defence, and from which we have received no offence at all; and that which frequently happens, that the stag we hunt, finding himself weak and out of breath, and seeing no other remedy, surrenders himself to us who pursue him, imploring mercy by his tears: "Questuque cruentus, Atque imploranti similis,"
On the leaden coronet, is the motto, alluding to the head which fills it, 'similis simili gaudet. "I should mention, before proceeding further, that Mr. Valentine M'Clutchy, being master of the Lodge in question, was the individual from whom I had received permission to be present under the circumstances already specified.
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