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Ignavum fucos pecus, said Maro, a praesepibus arcent. Hereunto, answered Gargantua, there is nothing so true as that the frock and cowl draw unto itself the opprobries, injuries, and maledictions of the world, just as the wind called Cecias attracts the clouds.
"And whom or what do you intend to hit now, that you are lugging with you that leathern magazine there, marked Gunpowder?" "I must be prepared for Lord Glenallan's moors on the twelfth, sir," said M'Intyre. "Ah, Hector! thy great chasse, as the French call it, would take place best Omne cum Proteus pecus agitaret altos Visere montes
Tacitus had not the remotest idea, that all mankind were sprung from a common ancestry, and diffused themselves over the world from a common centre, a fact asserted in the Scriptures, and daily receiving fresh confirmation from literature and science. Hence he speaks of the Germans as indigenas, which he explains below by editum terra, sprung from the earth, like the mutum et turpe pecus of Hor.
That the usurer is the greatest Sabbath breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday. That the usurer is the drone that Virgil speaketh of: "Ignavum fucos pecus a praesepibus arcent. That it is against nature for money to beget money; and the like. Some others have made suspicious and cunning propositions of banks, discovery of men's estates and other inventions.
But the bearer, who was to consult me for your benefit he hadn't a word to say to me on the subject, but that he would call and consult with me to-morrow. I found it in vain to question him, and I suspect it is a hoax. But what a rural monster you have sent me! "Cujum pecus? an Melibei?" He cannot possibly herd with Eusebius; he had no modest bearing about him.
They say that it is a pity, the devil should have God's part, which is the tithe. That the usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday. That the usurer is the drone, that Virgil speaketh of; Ignavum fucos pecus a praesepibus arcent.
This custom was not thought to detract from the writer's independence, inasmuch as each had his own domain, and borrowed only where he would be equally ready to give. It was otherwise with those thriftless bards so roughly dealt with by Horace in his nineteenth Epistle "O imitatores, servum pecus! ut mihi saepe Bilem, saepe iocum movistis." the Baviad and Maeviad of the Roman poet-world.
They affected a lofty contempt for an artist who had the newspapers at his back: and, pretending to be disgusted with the vulgum pecus, they refused the presents of Artaxerxes, which were not offered them. Some of them abused Christophe: others overwhelmed him with their commiseration.
'Omne quum Proteus pecus egit altos Visere montes, quoted Philip. 'Ovium et summa, genus haesit ulmo, added Guy. 'Ovium, exclaimed Philip, with a face of horror. 'Don't you know that O in Ovis is short? Do anything but take liberties with Horace! 'Get out of the tree first, Guy, said Charles, 'for at present your history seems likely to end with a long ohone!
"Cum prorepserunt primis animalia terris, Mutum et turpe pecus, glandem atque cubilia propter, Unguibus et pugnis, dein fustibus, atque its porro Pugnabaut armis, quæ post fabricaverat usus." Hor. Sat. lib. i. s. 3.
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