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Wednesday, May 9, 1711. Addison. 'Hoc est quod palles? Cur quis non prandeat, Hoc est? Per. 'Sat. 3. Several kinds of false Wit that vanished in the refined Ages of the World, discovered themselves again in the Times of Monkish Ignorance.
Or if thou hadst no thought of me, Nor what I have endured for thee, Yet shame and honour might prevail To keep thee thus from turning tail: For who would grudge to spend his blood in His honour's cause?" Quoth she, A pudding. Part I., Cant. 3, 183. Third Paper. Hoc est quod palles? Cur quis non prandeat, hoc est? PERS., Sat. iii. 85.
We must acknowledge that more than once, while contemplating the doctrines of the Academy and the Portico, even as they appear in the transparent splendour of Cicero's incomparable diction, we have been tempted to mutter with the surly centurion in Persius, "Cur quis non prandeat hoc est?"
Not coenante, observe: you might as well talk of an army taking tea and toast. Nor is that word ever applied to armies. It is true that the converse is not so rigorously observed: nor ought it, from the explanations already given. But generally the poets use the word merely to mark the time of day. In that most humorous appeal of Perseus "Cur quis non prandeat, hoc est?"
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