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A cause so good gives confidence: if there are plausible appearances against us there are proofs on our side, and I would dare to say to an adversary: Aspice, quam mage sit nostrum penetrabile telum.
I may observe that the Roman custom of bordering the public roads with tombs gives a significance to the inscriptions which some of them bore, such as, Siste, viator Aspice, viator, "Stop, traveller" "Look, traveller"; a significance which is altogether lost when the same inscriptions are carved, as we have often seen them, on tombstones in secluded country churchyards where no traveller ever passes by, and hardly even friends come to weep.
I say, when these in their several generations and successions shall turn to the Lord their God, either from their Gentilism and paganism, as in their first conversion to Christianity; as Tertullian observes after the resurrection of Christ, and the mission of the Holy Ghost; Aspice exinde universas nationes ex veragine erroris humani emergentes ad Dominum Deum, et ad Dominum Christum ejus.
Other people have invented book-plates, containing fell curses in doggrel Latin or the vernacular on the careless or dishonest borrower: "Aspice Pierrot pendut Parceque librum non a rendu" is the kind of macaronic French and Latin which schoolboys are accustomed to write under a sketch of the borrower expiating his offences on the gallows.
Quin Decios Drusosque procul, saevumque securi Aspice Torquatum, et referentem signa Camilium.... Quis te, magne Cato, tacitum, aut te, Cosse, relinquat? Quis Gracchi genus, aut geminos, duo fulmina belli. Scipiadas, cladem Libyae, parvoque potentem Fabricium, vel te sulco, Serrane, serentem?
There is another brief epigram which if we are right in thinking Pompey the subject of the lines seems to date from Vergil's soldier days, the third Catalepton: Aspice quem valido subnixum Gloria regno Altius et caeli sedibus extulerat. Tale deae numen, tali mortalia nutu Fallax momento temporis hora dedit.
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