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"He shall be more amiable than I am scolding my husband of husbands;" and she leaned toward him, baby and all, for a kiss from his lips. We say at school "Seniores priores" let favor go by seniority; but where babies adorn the scene, it is "juniores priores" with that sex to which the very young are confided.
The infantry was composed of the classes, variously armed, of which, including equites, there were one hundred and ninety-four centuries, one hundred of whom were of the first rank, heavily armed—all men possessing one hundred thousand ases. Each class was divided into seniores—men between forty-five and sixty, and juniores—from seventeen to forty-five.
It is not from any idle wish to obtrude my humble person with undue prominence upon the publick view that I resume my pen upon the present occasion. Juniores ad labores. Biglow had so long been silent as to be in danger of absolute oblivion.
Some say that these names signify old age and youth, for old men are called by the Latins majores, and young men juniores. The remaining months they named, from the order in which they came, the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth: Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, December.
She has had her fling, and for the rest of her life she lives but to serve her children and make them happy, recognising that in the antipodes 'juniores priores' is the adopted motto. The Australian schoolboy is indeed a 'caution. With all the worst qualities of the English boy, he has but few of his redeeming points.
The next is called May, from Maia, the mother of Mercury, to whom it is sacred; then June follows, so called from Juno; some, however, derive them from the two ages, old and young, majores being their name for older, and juniores for younger men.
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