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'Populus me sibilat; at mihi plaudo Ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca. 'I'm hissed in public; but in secret blest, I count my money and enjoy my chest. Horace, Sat. i. See Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 26.
"Populus me sibilat; at mihi plaudo Ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca." And never did a man submit to infamy for anything but its true reward, money.
The principle of 'At mihi plaudo ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca, is sufficient to make a wide interval between the opinions of the plaintiff and defendant in such cases. In short, to banish law and leave all plaintiffs to trust to the desire of reputation on the opposite side, would only be transporting the theory of the Whigs from the House of Commons to Westminster Hall."
Populus me sibilat; at mihi plaudo Ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca. That private ipse plaudo he may have in this business, which is a business of money; but the applause of no other human creature will he have for giving such an account as he admits this to be, irregular, uncertain, problematical, and of which no one can make either head or tail.