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Poetry may desert the royal themes of long ago arma virumque cano, maenin aeide thea and relate the lowly life of common folk, even the sordid life of the poor and miserable, but when doing so throws over it the musical glamour of verse and arouses the heat of sympathy and passion.
Something to this effect being suggested to the general by the chief of the department staff, who went on to say that he supposed it was a case of "Inter arma silent leges," the general's beard, which hid his mouth, was observed to twitch, and the wrinkles at the corner of his steely-blue eyes followed suit. It was a way of his when trying not to smile.
The text of this pamphlet is that of the first edition, collated with, those given by Faulkner, Hawkesworth, the "Miscellanies" of 1745, and Scott. It was originally published in 1713. By GREGORY MISOSARVM. Spargere voces In vulgum ambiguas; & quaerere confcius arma. The Second Edition LONDON: Printed for John Morphew, near Stationers Hall. 1713. Price 6d.
Choate was so much more than a mere lawyer, it was in court that he displayed the full force and variety of his powers. Hic currus et arma. We shall, however, speak more especially of his jury-trials, because in them more of his whole nature was brought into play, and because of them and of his management of them there is and can be no full record.
Dundee, retreating before the forces of the Convention, is represented as musing over his camp-fire on the ingratitude of the Prince whose life he had once saved. "Tu vero, Arctoæ gentis prædo improbe, tanti Fons et origo mali, Nassovi, ingrate virorum, Immeritum quid me, nunc Cæsaris arma secutum, Prosequeris toties, et iniquo Marte fatiges?
And when at the close of a splendid peroration he turned to pay a graceful compliment to the man who had saved the nation, and thundered forth to the delighted ears of his listeners Arma virumque cano Wazoo qui primus ab oris, and then, with the words "England, England," still on his lips, fell over backwards and was carried out on a stretcher, the House broke into wild and unrestrained applause.
I like Virgil's full sounding sentences, 'Arma virumque cano. There's nothing like them." "Yes, there is," Jean quietly replied, as she rose to her feet, crossed the room, and took down a book from a small shelf on the wall. This she opened as soon as she had taken her seat before the fire, and turned over several pages.
Nor were martial exercises unknown to the boys; the bow, it is true, was somewhat neglected then in England, but the use of sword, shield, and battle-axe was daily inculcated. "Si vis pacem," Father Cuthbert said on such occasions, "para arma."
His face would grow more serious as I scanned my Virgil in a faltering voice, and as he descanted on a passage my eye would wander out over the green trees and fields to the glistening water. What cared I for "Arma virumque" at such a time?
"It's a well-allowed principle, your Grace," he maintained. "Arma in armatos sumere jura sinunt the possessor may use violence to maintain his possession, but not to recover that of which he has been deprived."
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