United States or Grenada ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
'FAUSTUS "Tu quoque, ut hîc video, non es ignarus amorum." 'FORTUNATUS "Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes." Baptistae Mantuani Carmelitae Adolescentia, seu Bucolica. Ecloga I, published in 1498. See ante, i. 368. See ante, i. 396.
We look leniently on Otho parasite and profligate when we see him lingering on his last march, on the very verge of the death-struggle, in the teeth of Galba's legions, to decorate Popæa's grave. More in pity than in scorn, be sure, did Tacitus, the historic epigrammatist, write "Ne tum quidem veterum immemor amorum."
Although Galileo had announced that nothing new appeared in the other planets, yet he soon communicated to the world another discovery of no slight interest. The enigmatical letters in which it was concealed formed the following sentence: "Cynthiæ figuras æmulatur mater Amorum." Venus rivals the phases of the moon.
Soon after, in examining Venus, he saw her in the form of a crescent: Cynthioe figuras oemulatur mater amorum, "Venus rivals the phases of the moon."
The Commendation. Musa! canas nostrorum in testimonium Amorum, Et Gargantueas perpetuato faces, Utque homini tali resultet nobilis Eccho: Quicquid Fama canit, Pantagruelis erit. The Argument. Here I intend mysteriously to sing With a pen pluck'd from Fame's own wing, Of Gargantua that learn'd breech-wiping king. Decade the First. Help me, propitious stars; a mighty blaze Benumbs me!
"Cynthiæ figuras æmulatur Mater Amorum." that is to say, Venus vies with the phases of the moon. The discovery was an important one from its bearing on popular superstition ascribing to the planets special influences on human affairs, for since they were thus shown to transmit to us only borrowed light, belief in their beneficent or malefic powers over man's destinies received a rude shock.