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In the rectangular picture next to this is Pietro Farnese, elected Captain of the Florentines, with this inscription: PETRUS FARNESIUS, REIP. FLORENTINÆ IMPERATOR, MAGNIS PISANORUM COPIIS ... URBEM FLORENTIAM TRIUMPHANS INGREDITUR, ANNO 1362.

"Caecina," says the historian, "having been sent on to explore the hidden recesses of the forest, and make bridges and conveyances over the waters of the bog and the insecure places in the plains, the soldiers reach the sad spot, hideous both in its appearance and from association." "Urbem / Romam a / principi/o re/ges habu/ere."

The firelight enabled him to read its page-heading, printed in thick, blunt type "King Lear"! These girls, the one of them about to visit unknown England, were reading Shakespeare together. "Urbem quam dicunt Romam" he felt a wild inclination to question them, to ask what they expected to learn of England from Shakespeare, and from that play of all others.

She understands every thing. I'd give ten Pounds to hear her argue with my Friend Sir ANDREW FREEPORT about Trade. No, no, for all she looks so innocent as it were, take my Word for it she is no Fool. No. 119. Tuesday, July 17, 1711. Addison. 'Urbem quam dicunt Romam, Melibaee, putavi Stultus ego huic nostrae similem ... Virg.

So ended a curious episode in Roman history, where it holds a place beyond its intrinsic importance, from the light which it throws on the character of the Senate and on the practical working of the institutions which the Gracchi had perished in unsuccessfully attempting to reform. "Urbem venalem, et mature perituram, si emptorem invenenit." Sallust, De Bello Jugurthino, c. 35.

Concernynge the assaultes, there hath been tolde that chiefely thei ought to beware of the firste bronte, with whiche the Romaines gotte often times manie townes, assaultyng them sodainly, and on every side: and thei called it Aggredi urbem corona.

These persistencies, if a man has once satisfied himself of their direction and mastered their bearings and application, are just as cogent and valuable a guide to conduct, whether he publishes them ad urbem et orbem, or esteems them too strong meat for people who have, through indurated use and wont, lost the courage of facing unexpected truths.

But was Ovid the court-poet so bad a courtier as to find no other plea to excuse himself than by a plain accusation of his master? Mercury himself, though employed on a quite contrary errand, yet owns it a marriage by an innuendo pulchramque uxorius urbem extruis. He calls AEneas not only a husband, but upbraids him for being a fond husband, as the word uxorius implies.

See also Mueller's Dorians, vol. ii. p. 41. Pueros puberos neque prius in urbem redire quam viri facti essent. Justin, iii. 3. When Themistocles sought to extort tribute from the Andrians, he said, "I bring with me two powerful gods Persuasion and Force." "And on our side," was the answer, "are two deities not less powerful Poverty and Despair!"

About the Pilgrims Johnny wrote, Who made the emigration; And the Pilgrim Fathers they became Of the glorious Yankee nation. Ad urbem ivit Doodlius cum Caballo et calone, Ornavit plnma pilenm Et diiit: Maccaroni! "Excuse me," he continued; "you don't understand dog-Latin, do you, Talbot?" "No," said she, with a smile, "but I understand you, Brooke."