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A peer is now assailed with eggs, and then exalted." "Palmam qui meruit ferat," said the doctor. "Is that the Latin for how many hands high the horse is?" sais I. "Well, on an average, say fifteen, perhaps oftener less than more. It's the old Norman horse of two centuries ago, a compound of the Flemish stock and the Barb, introduced into the Low Countries by the Spaniards.
He turned and halted by the slanted bookcart. Twopence each, the huckster said. Four for sixpence. Tattered pages. The Irish Beekeeper. Life and Miracles of the Curé of Ars. Pocket Guide to Killarney. I might find here one of my pawned schoolprizes. Stephano Dedalo, alumno optimo, palmam ferenti.
QUAM PALMAM etc.: a prophecy after the event, like that in Rep. 6, 11 avi relliquias, the finishing up of the Punic wars. For the use of relliquias cf. Verg. Aen. 11, 30 Troas relliquias Danaum atque immitis Achilli; ib. 598; ib. 3, 87. TERTIUS: so all our MSS. This places the elder Scipio's death in 183, which agrees with Livy's account in 39, 50, 10.
It is true that antiquity has not much decried this vice; the writings even of several philosophers speak very tenderly of it, and even amongst the Stoics there are some who advise folks to give themselves sometimes the liberty to drink, nay, to drunkenness, to refresh the soul: "Hoc quoque virtutum quondam certamine, magnum Socratem palmam promeruisse ferunt." Cornet.
"Palmam qui meruit ferat," responded Willoughby, instantly recovering his temper. "Smoker Nelson dem your skins, come up once more!" Dixon's bullocks were exceptionally docile, for that uncultivated animal was one of the most humane and skilful drivers in Riverina; therefore, about twenty-five minutes sufficed to place his team in readiness for a start.
From all this, if there is any force in logic, we must conclude, that hanging, in this country, is only applied honoris causâ, as an ovation, in consideration of the great and magnanimous daring of the Alexanders and Caesars on a small scale, to whom the law adjudges the "palmam qui meruit ferat."
May every succeeding Nelson regard, and be able to look up to, that motto which was conferred on the hero of the Nile, Palmam qui meruit, ferat! On Sir James's arrival at Gibraltar he received the following letters from Sir Horatio Nelson, approving of his proceedings: Vanguard, Naples, 29th Sept. 1798.
Darwin's admirers find no difficulty in appreciating the importance of a personal element as far as he is concerned; let them not wonder, then, if others, while anxious to give him the laurels to which he is entitled, are somewhat indignant at the attempt to crown him with leaves that have been filched from the brows of the great dead who went before him. Palmam qui meruit ferat.
THE LAWYER'S TOAST. May the depth of our potations never cause us to let judgment go by default. Ad finem esto fidelis. Be faithful to the end. Amor patriae. The love of our country. Dilige amicos. Love your friends. Dum vivimus vivamus. Let us live while we live. Esto perpetua. Be thou perpetual. Palmam qid meruit ferate. Let him who has won bear the palm. Pro aris et focis.
Cringle there will fight, but he will have 'Palmam qui meruit ferat' for his motto yet, take my word for it." The sight of my cousin's lovely face, and the heavenly music of her tongue, made me so forgiving, that I could be angry with no one. At this moment a nice looking elderly man slid into the room as noiselessly as a cat. "How are you, Lieutenant? Why, you are positively gay this morning!
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