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The larger inscription, on the wide circle of the floor outside of you, records the translation of his body; the smaller one round the stone at your feet "quiescimus, domum hanc quum adimus ultimam" is a painful truth, I suppose, to travellers like us, who never rest anywhere now, if we can help it.
Each man was married with a ring and sacrifice, and the lady was then carried over the threshold, on which a sheepskin was spread, and made mistress of the house by being bidden to be Caia to Caius. The Roman matrons were good and noble women in those days, and the highest praise of them was held to be Domum mansit, lanam fecit she stayed at home and spun wool.
After these clauses everything is sustained by a longer class of sentences, as if they were erected on these as their pedestal: "Depressam, caecam, jacentem domum pluris, quam te, et quam fortunas tuas, aestimâsti." It is ended with a dichoreus; but the next sentence terminates with a double spondee.
Vulgus quoque et hic aliud agens populus et ventitavere ad domum, et per fora et circulos locuti sunt: nec quisquam audita morte Agricolae aut laetatus est aut statim oblitus. Augebat miserationem constans rumor, veneno interceptum.
And the voices began, "Domum, Domum, dulce Domum;" even Aunt Mary herself caught the feelings of her young companions, felt herself coming to her own beloved home and parents, half forgot how changed was her situation, and threw herself into the delight of returning. "Now, Fred," said Henrietta, "let us try those verses that you found a tune for, that begin 'What is home?"
God is at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of all things the universal principle, medium, and end; and no truth can be denied without His existence being directly or indirectly impugned. In a deeper sense than is commonly understood is it true that nisi Dominus aedificaverit domum, in vanum laboraverunt qui aedificant eam.
'And behind it a house and garden, small but dainty? 'Yes, my lord. 'Then I trust your majesty will release me from suspicion of being of those to whom the prophet Isaias saith, "Vae qui conjungitis domum ad domum, et agrum agro copulatis usque ad terminum loci: numquid habitabitis vos soli in medio terrae?"
But the marquis smiled, kept the silence for an instant, and then, in slow solemn voice, said: 'Scimus enim quoniam si terrestris domus nomus nostra hujus habitationis dissolvatur, quod aedificationem ex Deo habemus, domum non manufactam, aeternam in coelis. The clergymen grasped each other by the hand, then turning bowed together to the marquis, but the conversation was not resumed.
In Rome, when the bride first stepped across her threshold, they did not ask her, Do you know the alphabet? they asked simply, Can you spin? There was no higher epitaph than Queen Amalasontha's, Domum servavit, lanam fecit. In Boeotia, brides were conducted home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token that they were never to leave the house again.
And only fancy me fourth! Why, I'm a magnificent swell, without ever having known it. You look out, Master Walter, or I shall have a scrimmage with you for laurels." "Good," said Walter. "Meanwhile, come and help me to pack up my laurels in my box. And then for home! Hurrah!" And he began to sing the exquisite air of: "Domum, domum, dulce domum, Dulce, dulce, dulce domum;"
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