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For surely the conscience of this evill ground whereupon they have either built, or underpropped their tyranny, causes men, as well metus as spes in longum projicere, which sets them a work on further mischiefe. Of Liberality, and Miserablenesse.
It is the τετράγωνος of the Peripatetic, and has the “nil admirari” of the Stoic,— Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Now, as in geometry, the oblique must be known as well as the right: and in arithmetic, the odd as well as the even, so in the actions of our life, who seeth not the filthiness of evil, wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue. That maketh us know, Qui sceptra scevus duro imperio regit, Timet timentes, metus in auctorem redit.
A. 44: nihil metus in vultu, i.e., nothing to inspire fear in his countenance. For ob, cf. Ann. 1, 79: ob moderandas Tiberis exundationes. Nationis gentis. Gens is often used by T. as a synonym with natio. But in antithesis, gens is the whole, of which nationes or populi are the parts, e.g. G. 4: populos gentem; Sec. 14: nationes genti.
Knowledge has doubtless charms which cannot be conceived by those who have not tasted them. I do not mean a mere knowledge of facts without that of reasons, but knowledge like that of Cardan, who with all his faults was a great man, and would have been incomparable without those faults. Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas! Ille metus omnes et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus.
The doctor redeemed his promise, by prefacing a panegyric, in English, with the following quotation from Virgil Hic jacet FELIX QUI Potuit Rerum cognoscere Causas QUI Que Metus omnes Et inexorabile Fatum Subjecit Pedibus Strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Delay would have been expensive without use, as the debt was too considerable for payment or bail: I, therefore, suffered myself to be immediately conducted to gaol. Vestibulum ante ipsum, primisque in faucibus Orci, Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia cureae: Pallentesque habitant morbi, tristisque senectus, Et metus, et malesuada fames, et turpis egestas. VIRG. AEn. vi. 273.
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