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"Is that the reason why he tempts us thus?" the Doctor asks again, and the evil spirit answers: "Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris," which, mistranslated into Romance, is the equivalent of our proverb "The misfortune of many is the consolation of fools."

Frederick Hoffman strongly recommends them in weakness of the stomach, diarrhoeas, and for strengthening the tone of the viscera in general; and thinks they well deserve the appellation given them by Helmont, intestinorum solamen. PINUS sylvestris. SCOTCH FIR. Tar, yellow Resin, and Turpentine.

'Sir D'Anvers Osborne, Bart., Governor of New York, soon after his arrival there; in his garden. Solamen miseris, &c., is imitated by Swift in his Verses on Stella's Birthday, 1726-7: 'The only comfort they propose, To have companions in their woes. Swift's Works, ed. 1803, xi. 22. The note on Lucrece was, I conjecture, on line 1111: 'Grief best is pleased with grief's society.

You insulted none with it; but, while you wore it as a piece of defensive armour only, no insult likewise could reach you through it. Decus et solamen. Of quite another stamp was the then accountant, John Tipp. He neither pretended to high blood, nor in good truth cared one fig about the matter.

But as Nietzsche no longer belongs to the Quixotic class, as Germany seems to emerge with him from her youthful and cranky nebulosity, you will not even have the pleasure of being thrashed in the company of your Master: no, you will be thrashed all alone, which is an abominable thing for any right-minded human being. "Solamen miseris socios habuisse malorum." *