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After he was gone from the place and his fame was sounded abroad, the university of Toulouse wanted to recall him, and sent a letter to him nominating him to the chair of laws. His answer was, "Frustra absentem requiris, quem praesentem neglexistis." "In vain do you desire him absent whom present you flouted." At Valence he had eight hundred scholars, who attended his lectures.
Next I say, the ancient gesture, whereof we read most frequently, was standing. Chrysostom, complaining of few communicants, saith, Frustra habetur quotidiana oblatio, frustra stamus ad altare, nemo est qui simul participet.
If she was not poisoned, say, my dear Master Roland, was that fault of mine, I being ready to cure her if she had? and now I am denied the permission to accept my well-earned honorarium O Galen! O Hippocrates! is the graduate's cap and doctor's scarlet brought to this pass! Frustra fatigamus remediis aegros!" Death distant?
Ploravit nec frustra; obolum dedit alter et alter, Queis corda et mentem indiderat natura benignam. Ad latus interea jacui sopitus herile, Vel mediis vigil in somnis; ad herilia jussa Auresque atque animum arrectus, seu frustula amice Porrexit sociasque dapes, seu longa diei Tædia perpessus, reditum sub nocte parabat.
Now it is very strange how slight men and slight incidents bear on the great events of life; but that simple letter was instrumental to a new revolution in the strange history of Maltravers. QUID frustra simulacra fugacia captas? Quod petis est nusquam.* OVID: Met. iii. 432. * "Why, in vain, do you catch at fleeting shadows? That which you seek is nowhere."
Id sibi maxime formidolosum, privati hominis nomen supra principis attolli: frustra studia fori et civilium artium decus in silentium acta, si militarem gloriam alius occuparet: et cetera utcumque facilius dissimulari: ducis boni imperatoriam virtutem esse.
Now it is very strange how slight men and slight incidents bear on the great events of life; but that simple letter was instrumental to a new revolution in the strange history of Maltravers. QUID frustra simulacra fugacia captas? Quod petis est nusquam.* OVID: Met. iii. 432. * "Why, in vain, do you catch at fleeting shadows? That which you seek is nowhere."
Medea in Ovid speaks thus: Frustra, Medea, repugnas, Nescio quid Deus obstat, ait. And a little later Ovid makes her add: Sed trahit invitam nova vis, aliudque Cupido, Mens aliud suadet; video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor.
Wise and exquisite policy of my foes, /Frustra Cassium amovisti, si gliscere et vigere Brutorum emulos passurus es.* But I have no time to lose: farewell, my friend; God bless you; you are saved from these storms; and even intolerance, which prevented the exercise of your genius, preserves you now from the danger of having applied that genius to the welfare of your country.
"You dunce," exclaimed the rector, "I don't think you can even translate the motto of your own native place, of the gude town of Edinburgh. What, sir, does 'Nisi Dominus frustra, mean?" "It means, sir," rejoined the boy, "that unless we are lords' sons, it is in vain to come here." A Choice.
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