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The famous words "Summum amicum, summo in bello, summo ingenio praeditum," were among those which the modest Cicero tells us were taken up by the people with enthusiasm, greatly, without doubt, to the detriment of the play. The whole passage is one of great graphic power, and only fails to rouse us too to enthusiasm when we reflect that Cicero was not himself present.
How is it, then, that I have as yet received no reports of the carrying out of my orders, which, however, have no doubt been attended to? Ever and always your attached Amicus ad Amicum de Amico. N.B. I beg you will observe the most profound silence about the dedication, as I wish it to be a surprise! Jan. 30, 1817.
"Admirable!" he thought to himself, "admirable! We are all there my mother and I three parts of mankind." But on a page of the other book he had marked these lines for the beauty of them: "Beatus qui amat te, et amicum in te, et inimicum propter te. Solus enim nullum eorum amittit, cui omnes in illo cari sunt qui non amittitur." He hung over the fire, pondering the two utterances.
He who does not in some sort live for others, does not live much for himself: "Qui sibi amicus est, scito hunc amicum omnibus esse." The principal charge we have is, to every one his own conduct; and 'tis for this only that we here are.
I ought perhaps to make an Apology for this long Epistle; but as I rather believe you a Friend to Sincerity, than Ceremony, shall only assure you I am, T. SIR, Your most humble Servant, Annabella. No. 96 Wednesday, June 20, 1711. Steele. ... Amicum Mancipium domino, et frugi ... Hor. Mr.
-Repente ad studium hunc se applicasse musicum Amicum ingenio fretum, haud natura sua-. And in the later prologue to the -Adelphi- he says
It divided the nations again, and took away the common admiration for Italy which had made the young men of the north all rush together there. We can no longer imagine an Englishman like Selling coming to the great Politian at Bologna and grappling him to his heart "arctissima sibi conjunxit amicum familiaritate," as the warm humanistic phrase has it.
-Repente ad studium hunc se applicasse musicum Amicum ingenio fretum, haud natura sua-. And in the later prologue to the -Adelphi- he says
One thing let me recommend, if you use as principles either this, or that of virtual velocities, or any other, state them broadly and in general terms.... You will think me, I fear, a rough critic, but I think of Horace's good critic, Fiet Aristarchus: nec dicet, cur ego amicum Offendam in nugis? Hæ nugæ seria ducent In mala, Very faithfully yours, J. HERSCHEL.
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