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We ought to hold with all our force, both of hands and teeth, the use of the pleasures of life that our years, one after another, snatch away from us: "Carpamus dulcia; nostrum est, Quod vivis; cinis, et manes, et fabula fies." Now, as to the end that Pliny and Cicero propose to us of glory, 'tis infinitely wide of my account.
Fiamne dives? Fies. Vivamne invidendus? Vives. Moriarne in lecto meo? Ita." It was asked: Shall I find it? Answer: Thou shalt. Shall I become rich? Thou wilt. Shall I live an object of envy? Thou wilt. Shall I die in my bed? "A good specimen of the treasure-hunter's record quite reminds one of Mr. Minor-Canon Quatremain in 'Old St. Paul's," was Dennistoun's comment, and he turned the leaf.
There were curious signs looking like planetary symbols, and a few Hebrew words in the corners; and in the north-west angle of the cloister was a cross drawn in gold paint. Interrogatum est: Inveniamne? Responsum est: Invenies. Fiamne dives? Fies. Vivamne invidendus? Vives. Moriarne in lecto meo? Ita. It was asked: Shall I find it? Answer: Thou shalt. Shall I become rich? Thou wilt.
Seneca and Quintilian are striking and favourable instances of the school door opening into the senate: "Si fortuna volet fies de rhetore consul." But nearly all the chief writers carried their declamatory principles into the serious business of life. This double aspect of their career produced two different types of talent, under one or other of which the great imperial writers may be ranged.
He could nullify, or mollify, or qualify, with the best of them; and these, which he termed the three fies, he believed were the great requisites of a Leaplow legislator.
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