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"Tissotius pereat, Tissotianus adest!" he muttered with a sneer. "But perhaps, young sir, Latinity is not one of your subjects. The tongue of the immortal Cicero " "I speak it a little," Claude answered quietly. "It were foolish to approach the door of learning without the key." "Oh, you are a wit, young sir! Well, with your wit and your Latinity can you construe this:
Thus Apuleius, in his Apology, says, "Si qui forte adest eorundem Solemnium mihi particeps, signum dato," etc.; that is, "If any one happens to be present who has been initiated into the same rites as myself, if he will give me the sign, he shall then be at liberty to hear what it is that I keep with so much care."
"Padre mio," Benedetto said, "truly I do not think of what may happen to me to-morrow. I think only of the words: 'Magister adest et vocat me! but not as being spoken by a supernatural voice. I was wrong not to understand that the Master is always present, and always calling me, you, every one! If only our soul be hushed, we may hear His voice!" A faint ray of sunshine glinted into the cell.
His voice rang with mystic ardour. "Magister adest," said he. "Do you understand? The divine Master was with me, I had naught to fear, Padre mio! And I feared naught, neither her, nor myself. I saw her coming up to the open space. My thought was: 'If we meet alone, I will speak to her as to a sister, I will beg her forgiveness; perhaps God will give me a word of truth for her.
The words with which the Public Orator introduced me to the Vice-Chancellor, being in Latin, seem to me interesting as a relic rather than as a statement of fact: "Insignissime Vice-Cancellarie vosque egregii Procuratores: Adest civis Britannicus, hujus academiæ olim alumnus, nunc Novum Orbem incolentibus quam nostratibus notus.
But what was happening out on the hills? What words was God uttering in his heart? And if This unexpected, formidable if flashing into his mind stopped the ponderer in his slow walk. "Magister adest et vocat te!" Perhaps the Divine Master Himself was even now calling Benedetto to serve Him in the habit of a monk.
Now, depart from me, and trouble me no more." Bess made a motion as if she would go, and then turning, partly round, dropped heavily on the ground. Demdike caught the child ere she fell. "Thou hast killed her!" he cried to the abbot. "A stronger voice than mine hath spoken, if it be so," rejoined Paslew. "Fuge miserrime, fuge malefice, quia judex adest iratus."
"For," says Mr. Johnson, "though I do not quite agree with the proverb, that Nullum numen adest si sit prudentia, yet we may very well say, that Nullum numen adest, ni sit prudentia." It has since appeared. Miss Burney mentions meeting Dr. Harington at Bath in 1780. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 341. 'For though they are but trifles, thou Some value didst to them allow. Martin's Catullus, p. 1.
This is an office of the sepulcher, and has five personages: an angel, the guardian of the tomb and the three Maries. The drama of the wise and foolish virgins, which was thoroughly examined by M. Magnin and by Coussemaker after him, is simple in construction. It begins with a chorus in Latin, the theme of which is indicated by the first words: "Adest sponsus qui est Christus: vigilate, virgines."
It struck Mercier as he met the fixed stare of those eyes, that he had entered with less ceremony than was becoming, and that he ought to make amends for it; and, in the act of sitting down in the vacant seat, he turned and bowed politely to the two at the other table. "Tissotius timuit, jam peregrinus adest!" the big man murmured in a voice at once silky and sonorous.