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Contrast between Highlanders and Lowlanders "Angli etenim sicut et politiores Scoti antiqua illa Saxonum lingua, quae nunc Anglica dicitur promiscue, alia tamen atque alia dialecto loquuntur. De Gestis Scotorum, Lib. i. Account of Harlaw Sed ea Rossianorum parendi facilitas animum praedae avidum ad maiora audenda impulit.
S. did not venture her usual 'would my Barney like a dish of tea? but plied her worsted and knitting-needles with mild concentration, sometimes peeping under her lashes at Sturk, and sometimes telegraphing faintly to the children if they whispered too loud all cautious pantomime nutu signisque loquuntur.
Then resumed his learned queries. "et quid hodie lugdunenses loquuntur vossius vester nihilne novi scripsit? nihil certe, quod doleo, typis recenter editit." "Valet quidem vossius, rex benevole." replied Nigel, "ast senex veneratissimus annum agit, ni fallor, septuagesimum." "Virum, mehercle, vix tam grandaevum crediderim," replied the monarch.
An archbishop of Salzburg in the last century has cut a road which is prolonged for several hundred paces under a mountain, like the grotto of Pausilippo at Naples: on the front of the entrance gate there is a bust of the archbishop, under which is an inscription: Tesaxa loquuntur. There is a degree of grandeur in this inscription.
The particular obligation I had to him as the immediate instrument of my convincement, and high affection for him resulting therefrom, did so deeply affect my mind that it was some pretty time before my passion could prevail to express itself in words, so true I found those of the tragedian: Curae leves loquuntur, Ingentes stupent.
Details of the origin of this story will be found in Muir, ii. 219, Noeld, p. 102. No 95. Tuesday, June 19, 1711. Steele. Curae Leves loquuntur, Ingentes Stupent. Having read the two following Letters with much Pleasure, I cannot but think the good Sense of them will be as agreeable to the Town as any thing I could say either on the Topicks they treat of, or any other.
Resp. 54 is the same as regia potestas in Phil. 1, 3. LOQUITUR CUM CRITOBULO etc.: 'discourses with Critobulus of how Cyrus etc.. The construction of loqui with acc. and inf. belongs to colloquial Latin, as does the construction loqui aliquam rem for de aliqua re; cf. Att. 1, 5, 6 mecum Tadius locutus est te ita scripsisse; ib. 9, 13, 1 mera scelera loquuntur.
In alia homines sunt toti pilosi et hispidi, vsu simiarum manibus et pedibus ambulantes, et ad arbores reptantes, qui quamuis non loquuntur, apparent rationabiles, qui regem habent, et rectores. Et in alia omnes sunt claudi, qui quamuis pedes habeant, tamen ambulant super genua multum ridiculose, imo miserabiliter, vt de passu in passum videantur casuri in terrem.
A Fable or Apologue, such as is now under consideration, seems to be, in its genuine state, a narrative in which beings irrational, and sometimes inanimate, arbores loquuntur, non tantum ferae, are, for the purpose of moral instruction, feigned to act and speak with human interests and passions. To this description the compositions of Gay do not always conform.
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