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But the bailiffs were picked men, broad-shouldered and athletic, and furnished with active-looking shillelaghs. Veni, vidi, victus sum! a glance showed him all was lost. 'My blessin' an you, Peg Finigan! and was it you let them in? murmured his reverence, with intense feeling. 'At whose suit? enquired the generous outlaw, sitting up among the blankets. 'Mrs.
And afterwards, in the Sicilian war, the following epigram was published: Postquam bis classe victus naves perdidit, Aliquando ut vincat, ludit assidue aleam. Twice having lost a fleet in luckless fight, To win at last, he games both day and night.
It is General Graham of Lynedoch Sir Thomas Graham. I scarcely know him, but I believe I admire him more than I do God." "I admire him a good deal myself," said I, "and have good reason to. I have fought with him, been beaten, and run away. Veni, victus sum, evasi." "What!" he cried. "You were at Barossa?"
something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. Epicurus divides the needs of mankind into three classes, and the division made by this great professor of happiness is a true and a fine one. First come natural and necessary needs, such as, when not satisfied, produce pain, food and clothing, victus et amictus, needs which can easily be satisfied.
Eques ipso melior Bellerophonte, Neque pugno neque segni pede victus, Simul unctos Tiberinis humeros lavit in undis. "What ho! my noble Paullus," exclaimed a loud and cheerful voice, "whither afoot so early, and with so grave a face?"
We who are always striving to roll our prospects and our office boxes up the hill to Simla may learn a lesson here: Sisyphus in vita quoque nobis ante oculos est Qui petere a populo fasces sævasque secures Imbibit et semper victus tristisque recedit.
It is General Graham of Lynedoch- -Sir Thomas Graham. I scarcely know him, but I believe I admire him more than I do God. 'I admire him a good deal myself, said I, 'and have good reason to. I have fought with him, been beaten, and run away. Veni, victus sum, evasi. 'What! he cried. 'You were at Barossa?
But here it cannot mean that Laelius and Scipio fed together, which is sufficiently said in the preceding idem victus. And what shall I say of our unflagging zeal in the pursuit of knowledge, and in learning everything now within our reach, an employment in which, when not under the eyes of the public, we passed all our leisure time together?
Nam qui Tartareum in specus Victus lumina flexerit, Quidquid praecipuum trahit, Perdit, dum videt inferos. It may be observed, in general, that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure instant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.
Caesar awarded the prize to Syrus, saying to Laberius in an impromptu verse of polite condescension, "Favente tibime victus, Laberi, es a Syro." From this time the old knight surrendered the stage to his younger and more polished rival. Syrus vas a native of Antioch, and remarkable from his childhood for the beauty of his person and his sparkling wit, to which he owed his freedom.
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