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Then descending lower and still lower; disregarding alike the warning of Lord Bacon 'a credulous man is a deceiver, and of Tacitus fingunt simul creduntque he rakes up even a devotee, Boturini, and makes him also an historic authority, without overtaxing public credulity; though this wretch, as we have seen, out-Munchausens Pietro himself, and as he may have surpassed every other man in Spain in drawing the long bow, was justly selected for historiographer, at a time when death was the penalty for possessing a book not licensed by the Inquisition.
Ex moribus, sc. Sarmatarum. Erigitur. Middle sense. Raise themselves, or rise, cf. evolvuntur, 39. Figunt. Have fixed habitations, in contrast with the Sarmatians, who lived in carts. Cf. Ann. 13, 54: fixerant domos Frisii. Al. fingunt. Sarmatis. The stock of the modern Russians, cf. 1. note. Cubile. We should expect cubili to correspond with victui and vestituti.
This has now been for some time absolutely disregarded. No. 117. Saturday, July 14, 1711. Addison. ... Ipsi sibi somnia fingunt. Virg. There are some Opinions in which a Man should stand Neuter, without engaging his Assent to one side or the other.
Why do you not now at this instant settle yourself in the state you seem to aim at, and spare all the labour and hazard you interpose?" "Nimirum, quia non cognovit, qux esset habendi Finis, et omnino quoad crescat vera voluptas." I will conclude with an old versicle, that I think very apt to the purpose: "Mores cuique sui fingunt fortunam."
The wise for cure on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend. No. 117. Ipsi sibi somnia fingunt. VIRG. Ecl. viii. ver. 108. Their own imaginations they deceive. There are some opinions in which a man should stand neuter, without engaging his assent to one side or the other.
In this way the first men of the pagan peoples, as children of the growing human race, fashioned things out of their ideas.... This nature of human things has bequeathed that eternal property which Tacitus elucidated with a fine phrase when he said, not without reason, that men in their terror fingunt simul creduntque."
And as one often represents to oneself something pleasing, one makes it easy to imagine, and one thinks it also easy to put into effect, whence it comes that one persuades oneself easily of what one wishes. Et qui amant ipsi sibi somnia fingunt.
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