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CONSITIONES ... INSITIONES: 'planting ... grafting'. On the varieties of grafting and the skill required for it see Verg. Georg. 2, 73 seq. POSSUM: see n. on 24. IN HAC ... CONSUMPSIT: Cic. probably never, as later writers did, used consumere with a simple ablative. CURIUS: see n. on 15. A ME: = a mea villa; cf. n. on 3 apud quem.
Fielding has described one class as feras consumere nati; but the love of field-sports indicates a certain activity of mind, which had forsaken Mr. Bertram, if ever he possessed it. A good-humoured listlessness of countenance formed the only remarkable expression of his features, although they were rather handsome than otherwise.
'Educated, he writes, from the village beer-shop in pale ink of a ferruginous complexion; 'educated at Trin. Coll. Cam. nursed in the lap of affluence once in my small way the pattron of the Muses, &c. &c. &c. surely a sympathetic mind will not withhold a trifle, to help him on to the market-town where he thinks of giving a Lecture to the fruges consumere nati, on things in general?
"'Ragibus et clotibus solemus stopere windous, Non numerus sumus et fruges consumere nati, Stercora flat stiro raro terra-tanfcaro bungo." "Aisy, Mister Kavanagh," replied the other; "let the Cantabrigian resolve the one I propounded him first."
"Born to consume the fruits of the earth;" so I make no manner of doubt but that there are others Feras consumere nati, "Born to consume the beasts of the field;" or, as it is commonly called, the game; and none, I believe, will deny but that those squires fulfil this end of their creation.
To be idle and useless is neither an honour nor a privilege; and though persons of small natures may be content merely to consume FRUGES CONSUMERE NATI men of average endowment, of manly aspirations, and of honest purpose, will feel such a condition to be incompatible with real honour and true dignity. As work is our life, show me what you can do, and I will show you what you are.
At three and twenty he had succeeded to the title and to very little else; the family had long been in decline; a Lord Dymchurch who died in the early part of the nineteenth century practically completed the ruin of his house by an attempt to form a Utopia in Canada, and since then a rapid succession of ineffectual peers, fruges consumere nati, had steadily reduced the dignity of the name.
I have sometimes studied those men who pay great attention to good eating, men whose first waking thought is What shall we have to eat to-day? men who describe their dinner with as much detail as Polybius describes a combat. I have found these so-called men were only children of forty, without strength or vigour fruges consumere nati. Gluttony is the vice of feeble minds.
They are truly fruges consumere nati. They are to be heard with great respect and attention upon matters within their province, that is, on trades and manufactures; but on anything that relates to agriculture they are to be listened to with the same reverence which we pay to the dogmas of other ignorant and presumptuous men.
And Helbeck, tying the pony to a tree, went up now with Laura to walk round the woods, showing in all his comments and calculations a great deal of shrewd woodcraft and beastcraft, enough to prove at any rate that the Esau of his race feras consumere nati, to borrow the emendation of Mr. Fielding had not yet been wholly cast out by the Jacob of a mystical piety.
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