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The reports were so drawn that Barère was afterwards accused of having dishonestly sacrificed the interests of the public to the tastes of the court. To one of these reports he had the inconceivable folly and bad taste to prefix a punning motto from Virgil, fit only for such essays as he had been in the habit of composing for the Floral Games: "Si canimus sylvas, sylvæ sint Consule dignæ."
"Lord, make men as towers!" he remembered his father's prayer in the field by Tewkesbury, and at last he understood. "All towers carry a lamp of some kind" why, of course they did. He looked about him. The small chorister's face was glowing "Triune Deus, hominum Salutis auctor optime, Immensum hoc mysterium Ovante lingua canimus!"
The reports were so drawn that Barere was afterwards accused of having dishonestly sacrificed the interests of the public to the tastes of the court. To one of these reports he had the inconceivable folly and bad taste to prefix a punning motto from Virgil, fit only for such essays as he had been in the habit of composing for the Floral Games "Si canimus sylvas, sylvae sint Consule dignae."
They all agreed that this was a very sensible remark for a dying man, when the major, to their utter astonishment, again opened his lips, and with more vigor than before, muttered one of two sentences, which were all of Latin he had ever known in his life, "Apolla Majora canimus." "See, now!-what is this it is now?" interposed the learned Tickler.
Eskell had an itch for the classics: so he went on to say, "You have been a scholar, I hear." "I am not old enough to be a scholar, sir," said Alfred; "but I am a student." "Well, well; now can you tell me what follows this line "Jusque datum sceleri canimus populuinque potentem'?" "Why, not at the moment." "Oh, surely you can," said Dr. Eskell ironically. "It is in a tolerably well-known passage.
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