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Theodosius has received the surname of Great seemingly by comparison; 'Inter caecos luscus rex; and it was highly creditable to a Roman Emperor in those days to be neither ruffian nor villain, but a handsome, highbred, courteous gentleman, pure in his domestic life, an orthodox Christian, and sufficiently obedient to the Church to forgive the monks who had burnt a Jewish synagogue, and to do penance in the Cathedral of Milan for the massacre of Thessalonica.
Et dicit liber Iesum sanctissimum omnium Prophetarum fuisse veracem in dictis et factis, benignum, pium, iustum, et ab omni vitio penitus alienum: Sanctum quoque Ioannem Euangelistam post praedictos Prophetas fuisse alijs Sanctiorem, cuius et Euangelium fatentur esse plenum salutari, ac veraci doctrina, et ipsum Sanctum Ioannem illuminasse caecos, leprosos mundasse, suscitasse mortuos, et in coelum volasse viuentem.
Finally, the Aetna is by a student of Epicurean philosophy largely influenced by Lucretius. It would be difficult to make a stronger case short of a contemporaneous attribution. Quare quae cantus meditanti mittere caecos Magna mihi cupido tribuistis praemia divae. What other poem could he have had in mind?
"Spes hominum caecos, morbos, votumque, labores, Et passim toto volitantes aethere curas."
SHEPHERDS of people, had need know the calendars of tempests in state; which are commonly greatest, when things grow to equality; as natural tempests are greatest about the Equinoctia. And as there are certain hollow blasts of wind, and secret swellings of seas before a tempest, so are there in states: Ille etiam caecos instare tumultus Saepe monet, fraudesque et operta tunescere bella.
'Being asked if Barnes knew a good deal of Greek, he answered, "I doubt, Sir, he was unoculus inter caecos ." 'He used frequently to observe, that men might be very eminent in a profession, without our perceiving any particular power of mind in them in conversation. Burke is the only man whose common conversation corresponds with the general fame which he has in the world.
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