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"'Tis money that makes the mare to go." Then what a grand school is cricket for some of the most useful lessons of life! Its extraordinary fluctuations are bound to teach us sooner or later "Rebus angustis animosus atque Fortis appare."
The rebus angustis are often painfully impressed on the memory by a long sequence of "duck's eggs"; and how difficult is the animosus atque fortis appare when we return to the pavilion with a "pair of spectacles" to our credit! Then, again, cricketers are taught to preserve a mind "Ab insolenti temperatam Laetitiâ."
EX QUO FIT etc.: the argument seems to be that youth knows how long it has to last and is therefore less spirited than age, which knows not when it will end. ANIMOSIOR ... FORTIOR: Horace, Odes 2, 10, 21 rebus angustis animosus atque fortis appare; the two words are joined also in Cic. Mil. 92: animosus, 'spirited'. HOC ILLUD EST etc.: 'this is the meaning of the answer made by Solon etc'. Cf.
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