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"Sir," replied Tressilian, "I should in that case have all that I want at present a horse fit to carry me forward; out of hearing of your learning." The last words he muttered to himself. "O CAECA MENS MORTALIUM!" said the learned man "well was it sung by Junius Juvenalis, 'NUMINIBUS VOTA EXAUDITA MALIGNIS!"
But perhaps his most characteristic lines are rather those where his moral indignation breaks forth in a sort of splendid violence quite peculiar to himself; lines like Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas, or Magnaque numinibus vota exaudita malignis, in which the haughty Roman language is still used with unimpaired weight and magnificence.
To avoid depravity like this, it is not necessary that any one should aspire to heroism or sanctity, but only that he should resolve not to quit the rank which nature assigns him, and wish to maintain the dignity of a human being. No. 184. Permittes ipsis expendere numinibus, quid Conveniat nobis, rebusque sit utile nostris. JUV. Sat. x. 347.
There was no one; but even if there had been such a person, Paul Bultitude was a sober prosaic individual, who would probably have treated the warning as a piece of ridiculous superstition. As it was, no man could have put himself in a position of extreme peril with a more perfect unconsciousness of his danger. A Grand Transformation Scene "Magnaque numinibus vota exaudita malignis."
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