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Malcolm knew good-natured Brother Nicolas, and kept his hood well over his face after the first salutation; though he felt confident that Lord Malcolm could hardly be recognized in the begging scholar, as he made reply, 'Salve, reverende frater. Venio de Lutetia Parisiorum. 'Whisht with your Latin, laddie, said the brother.
When Cicero writes of the pleasures of old age, that of agriculture is chief among them: "Venio nunc ad voluptates agricolarum, quibus ego incredibiliter delector: quae nec ulla impediuntur senectute, et mihi ad sapientis vitam proxime videntur accedere." Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
When Cicero writes of the pleasures of old age, that of agriculture is chief among them: "Venio nunc ad voluptates agricolarum, quibus ego incredibiliter delector: quae nec ulla impediuntur senectute, et mihi ad sapientis vitam proxime videntur accedere." Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
HAEC QUIDEM: a short summary of the preceding arguments, preparatory to a transition to a new subject, introduced by venio nunc ad. The succession of two clauses both containing quidem seems awkward, but occurs in Fin. 5, 80 and elsewhere. HONESTUM SIT: 'does him honor'. UT ANTE DIXI: in 26, where see the notes.
I knew it directly I met you. I don't know any one else she would listen to so willingly, if you will consent to intervene. 'Intervene! echoed Marion. Somehow she did not like the word. Not at that moment, I mean. 'Yes, intervene, he repeated. There was no mistaking it what could be clearer. Latin, inter, between; venio, I come.
The present was not brought as a bribe, since the incident took place after the war. Curius had become patronus of the Samnites, and they were bringing the customary offering of clientes; see Rep. 3, 40. NE: here = num, a rare use; so Fin. 3, 44; Acad. 2, 116. SED VENIO AD: so in 51 venio nunc ad. IN AGRIS ERANT: 'lived on their farms'. For erant cf. n. on 21 sunt.
The root is probably vi, "to go," which may be traced in vis, via, vado, venio, etc. Fire was indeed retained for sacrifice; but it was regarded as a mere material agent, and not as a mysterious Power, the proper object of prayer and worship.
Over the Lodge, upon a dial was inscribed the appropriate motto, "Venio sicut fur." The Gate, which crossed Newgate Street, had a wide arch for carriages, and a postern, on the north side, for foot-passengers.
"Venio domum, accurrit famulus admodum tristis, nunciat Johannem Baptistam duxisse uxorem Brandoniam Seronam." De Vita Propria, ch. xli. p. 147. Cardan in describing this action of Gian Battista, who was then determined to murder his wife, says of him: "Erat enim natura clemens admodum et gratus." De Utilitate, p. 834.
The famous scholar, Daniel Heinsius, within a century after its publication, believed that a copy which he purchased, at a cost of a hundred ducats, was the only one remaining in the world, and he inscribed the following lines upon one of its blank pages: "Roma meos fratres igni dedit. Unica Phoenix Vivo, aureis venio centum Heinsio." "Rome gave my brothers to the fire.
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