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"Caelo tonantem credidimus Jovem regnare," says Horace; and it was only by the excitement of such peculiarly horrid situations, that the sense of a superintending power could be awakened within me, a hardened and incorrigible sinner. I changed my clothes, and was glad when night came, that I might be left to myself; but oh, how infinitely more horrid did my situation appear!
Sometimes they make covenants by taking a stone in their hands, and saying, "If I make this covenant seriously and faithfully, then let the great Jupiter bless me; if not so, let me be cast away from the face of the gods, as I cast away this stone." This was called jurare per Jovem lapidem.
"Hold it," Greg said, peering at the film reader. "There's something more on the last page, but I can't read it." Tom blinked at the entry. "'Inter Jovem et Martem planetam interposui," he read. He scratched his head. "That's Latin, and it's famous, too. Kepler wrote it, back before the asteroids were discovered. 'Between Jupiter and Mars I will put a planet."
"Caelo tonantem credidimus Jovem regnare," says Horace; and it was only by the excitement of such peculiarly horrid situations, that the sense of a superintending power could be awakened within me, a hardened and incorrigible sinner. I changed my clothes, and was glad when night came, that I might be left to myself; but oh, how infinitely more horrid did my situation appear!
The president of a province is introduced, by Prudentius as thus addressing a martyr: Tu qui Doctor, ait, seris novellum Commenti genus, ut Leves Puellae, Lucos destituunt, Jovem relinquant; Damnes, si sapias, ANILE DOGMA. The Christian Fathers confess, and glory in it, that the greater part of their congregations consisted of women and children, slaves, beggars, and vagabonds.
There are diseases that overthrow even our desires, and our knowledge. Fortune ought not to second the vanity of the Roman legions, who bound themselves by oath, either to overcome or die: "Victor, Marce Fabi, revertar ex acie: si fallo, Jovem patrem, Gradivumque Martem aliosque iratos invoco deos."
And here the scholiast naïvely remarks: Videtur his ostendisse aliud esse fata, aliud Jovem. MacInnis, Class. Again, contrary to the Stoic creed, the poet conceives of his human characters as capable of initiating action and even of thwarting fate. The Stoic hypothesis seems to break down completely in such passages. Can we assume an Epicurean creed with better success?
The writer once put it to a very eminent Roman antiquarian, and the answer was a quotation from Virgil "Hoc nemus, hunc, inquit, frondoso vertice clivum Quis deus incertum est, habitat Deus; Arcades ipsum Credunt se vidisae Jovem cum saepe nigrantem AEgida concuteret dextra nimbosque cieret."
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