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Diximus enim in superioribus materiam et esse causam compositi et formae dependentis ab illa: ut res ergo dicatur ex nihilo fieri uterque modus causalitatis negari debet; et eodem sensu accipiendum est illud axioma, ut sit verum: Ex nihilo nihil fit, scilicet virtute agentis naturalis et finiti nihil fieri, nisi ex praesupposito subjecto per se concurrente, et ad compositum et ad formam, si utrumque suo modo ab eodem agente fiat.
MUNERE ... UTERETUR: 'a gift such as we both might make use of in company'. MIHI QUIDEM: this forms a correction upon uterque nostrum above: 'whatever you may think of the work, I at least have found the writing of it pleasant'. CONFECTIO: 'composition'; 'completion'; a word scarcely found in the classical Latin except in Cicero's writings. Cf. De Or. 2, 52 annalium confectio; pro.
"Uterque bonus pacis bellique minister." Fortune would have a hand in my promotion, by this particular circumstance which she put in of her own, not altogether vain; for Alexander disdained the ambassadors of Corinth, who came to offer him a burgess-ship of their city; but when they proceeded to lay before him that Bacchus and Hercules were also in the register, he graciously thanked them.
To which he receives as answer “Ay, and a poesy: Annulus hic nobis, quod sic uterque, dabit.” He at once exclaims “... Good! This ring will give you what you both desire. I’ll make the whole house chant it, and the parish.” Such rings were known as Gemel or Gimmal rings, the word being derived from the Latin gemellus, twins.
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