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"Nay, nay, Oliver," said Louis impatiently, "the heathen poet speaks of Vota diis exaudita malignis, wishes, that is, which the saints grant to us in their wrath; and such, in the circumstances, would have been the success of William de la Marck's exploit, had it taken place about this time, and while I am in the power of this Duke of Burgundy.
"Sir," replied Tressilian, "I should in that case have all that I want at present a horse fit to carry me forward; out of hearing of your learning." The last words he muttered to himself. "O CAECA MENS MORTALIUM!" said the learned man "well was it sung by Junius Juvenalis, 'NUMINIBUS VOTA EXAUDITA MALIGNIS!"
But perhaps his most characteristic lines are rather those where his moral indignation breaks forth in a sort of splendid violence quite peculiar to himself; lines like Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas, or Magnaque numinibus vota exaudita malignis, in which the haughty Roman language is still used with unimpaired weight and magnificence.
Saturday, September 8, 1711. Addison. ... Si forte necesse est, Fingere cinctutis non exaudita Cethegis Continget: dabiturque licentia sumpta pudenter. Hor.
There was no one; but even if there had been such a person, Paul Bultitude was a sober prosaic individual, who would probably have treated the warning as a piece of ridiculous superstition. As it was, no man could have put himself in a position of extreme peril with a more perfect unconsciousness of his danger. A Grand Transformation Scene "Magnaque numinibus vota exaudita malignis."