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Several criticisms which I had been led to make in the Fortnightly I now find had been anticipated, and these have been cancelled or a note added in the present work; I have also appended to the volume a supplemental note of greater length on the reconstruction of Marcion's text, the only point on which I believe there is really very much room for doubt. Tertullian, De Praescript. Haeret. c. 38.

Aeneas is not described under more consternation in the temple of Juno, Dum stupet obtutuque haeret defixus in uno, than was our heroe at what he saw in this barn. While he was looking everywhere round him with astonishment, a venerable person approached him with many friendly salutations, rather of too hearty a kind to be called courtly. This was no other than the king of the gypsies himself.

"Open it," he said, "I will read, segnius irritant, don't put the light out, ah! haeret lateri, I am going, vale, vale, vale, good-bye, good-bye, the Lord take care of my child! Domine, audi vel audito!" His face whitened suddenly, and he lay still, with open eyes and mouth. He had taken his last degree.

Lea, in his History of Confession and Indulgences, ii, p. 87, quotes Zanchini, Tract. de Haeret., cap. 33, to the effect that goods of a heretic were confiscated and disabilities inflicted on two generations of descendants.

Sac. i. p. 306. H.E. v. 11, vi. 6. H.E. vi. 6. Marc. iv. 5. Haeret. c. 36; see Scrivener, Introduction, p. 446. These facts may be held to show that the books were not regarded with the same veneration as now. Haer. iii. 11. 8. Adv. Haer. iv. 13. 1. Westcott, On the Canon, p. 120, notes 4 and 5.

This frequently cuts off charity from the greatest objects of compassion, and inspires people with a malevolence towards those poor decrepid parts of our species, in whom human nature is defaced by infirmity and dotage. No. 118. Haeret lateri lethalis arundo. VIRG. AEn. iv. ver. 73. The fatal dart Sticks in his side, and rankles in his heart.

"Well, that's a solemn asseveration, and I will depend on it; but if you betray me to this family the property is lost to us and our heirs forever." "Do not fear me; I have taken the oath." "Well, then, listen; if you could understand Latin, I would give you a quotation from a line of Virgil 'Haeret lateri lethhalis arundo. The girl's doomed subdued overcome; I am in the process of killing her."

It has, not improbably, been thought that under these circumstances a prosecution for incitement of the unpropertied classes to hatred and contempt of the propertied classes would create an effective diversion; it was probably hoped that even if such an accusation were dismissed by you, still you remember the ancient adage: calumniare audacter, semper aliquit haeret it would serve as a wet towel to bind about the slightly-inflamed countenance of our bourgeoisie, and so, with this in view, Gentlemen, I was selected as the scapegoat to be driven out into the wilderness.

ambition, avarice, irresolution, fear, and inordinate desires, do not leave us because we forsake our native country: "Et Post equitem sedet atra cura;" they often follow us even to cloisters and philosophical schools; nor deserts, nor caves, hair-shirts, nor fasts, can disengage us from them: "Haeret lateri lethalis arundo."

But he fell to a new love as the old one was departed, and yet the ancient wound pained him still "after a more desperate and dogged manner." Haeret letalis arundo! By these passions his conversion was delayed, the carnal and spiritual wills fighting against each other within him.