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They saw plainly enough what they wanted to give, but never took the pains to see the donation in its relation to the institution as a whole. The majority report, which was drawn by our famous Latinist, Professor Claudius Senex, concluded with the despairing note Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. The minority report was delivered orally by young Simpson Smith of the department of banking and finance.
"Ay doth he whenever he tells an improbable story to begin, and shows you a holy relic; arms you against the Satanic host. Shouldst have answered him out of antiquity 'Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. Some blackguard chopped his wife's head off on that stone, young man; you take my word for it." And the friar hurried Gerard away. "Alack, father, I fear you abashed the good priest."
It cannot, however, be forgotten that the government of the Emperor Napoleon had suppressed the Rayneval report, and Pius IX. must have thought, although prudence forbade him to say, that there was reason to doubt the fidelity of his apparently devoted ally. “Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.”
Don't you suppose this is just another attempt to get round him? 'Timeo Danaos, you know." Miss Clifford shook her head. "I never studied Greek," she said, "but I am sure you are unjust." Roger gave a rapturous chuckle and squeezed her plump hand in his. "Never mind. 'Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood' you know that quotation, don't you?"
Come in here, there's a good fellow, I want to speak to you." "Why is he so infernally genial?" reflected Philip. "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes;" then aloud, "All right, father; but if it is all the same to you, I should like to get some dinner first." "Dinner! why, I have had none yet; I have been too busy. I shall not keep you long; we will dine together presently."
"Timeo Danaos et dona ferrentes. "The Greeks I fear, e'en in the gifts they bear." Hence Red Jacket began to look unfavorably on the attempts that had been made to civilize the Indian. He scorned to use the white man's axe, or hoe, or any implement of husbandry. He would not even use his language.
That she should make nothing of him at all was as incredible to him as that there should not be, somewhere in the world, Polchester town in Glebeshire county. There had been with him, I think, from the first a fear that "it was all too good to be true" Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
But her father gained for his daughter a marriage more glorious still. Now he had heard how sometime Danaos at Argos devised for his forty and eight maiden daughters, ere mid-day was upon them, a wedding of utmost speed for he straightway set the whole company at the race-course end, and bade determine by a foot-race which maiden each hero should have, of all the suitors that had come.
But Chevenix shook his head. "You never know where to have Nevile. What says the Primer? Timeo Danaos don't you know?" She pleaded, Might they not forget Nevile out here in the open? "Do you know," she asked him, "that I haven't been out like this " "On the loose, eh?" he interposed. She nodded.
He dilates to his uncle, Lord Seymour Temple, a greyheaded placeman, on the profligacy of the press. What is this? The Virgilian line our orator introduced so felicitously is omitted. He panegyrizes the 'Mirror of Parliament, where, he has no doubt, the missing verse will appear. The quotation was new, 'Timeo Danaos. Lord Seymour Temple begins a long story about Fox and General Fitzpatrick.
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