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We all know that there was a Roman town at Lucca, because it was called Luca, and if there had been no Roman town the modern town would not be spelt with two c's. All Roman towns had milestones beyond them. But why did this tenth milestone from this Roman town keep its name? LECTOR. I am indifferent. AUCTOR. I will tell you.
Non refert auctor fuerit, factorve malorum. Anne opera in vitium sceleris pulcherrima verti, Cum possit prohibere, sinat; quod si velit omnes Innocuos agere Omnipotens, ne sancta voluntas Degeneret, facto nec se manus inquinet ullo? Condidit ergo malum Dominus, quod spectat ab alto, Et patitur fierique probat, tanquam ipse crearit.
And as he thus replied his voice trembled with disgust, and his open hands made a gesture of surrender as though he were yielding up his soul. The words he had chosen were precisely those of the required formula: Auctor laudabiliter se subjecit et opus reprobavit. "The author has laudably made his submission and reprobated his work."
In the comment on Canto III. of the "Inferno," Benvenuto says, speaking of Dante's great enemy, Boniface VIII., "Auctor ssepissime dicit de ipso Bonifacio magna mala, qui de rei veritate fuit magnanimus peccator": "Our author very often speaks exceedingly ill of Boniface, who was in very truth a grand sinner." This sentence is omitted in the translation.
Tell me, Lector, had this man any adventures? LECTOR. None that I know of. AUCTOR. Had he opinions? LECTOR. Yes. I forgot to tell you he was a Unionist. He spoke two foreign languages badly. He often went abroad to Assisi, Florence, and Boulogne... He left 7,623 pounds 6s. 8d., and a house and garden at Sutton. His wife lives there still. AUCTOR. Oh!
Mr Fingle was an honest, straightforward man, who said a plain thing in a plain way. They had left him to choose a suitable collection of books on Catholicism, and he had chosen the best he knew. LECTOR. But all that does not excuse an intolerable prolixity? AUCTOR. Neither did I say it did, dear Lector.
I know whole quarters of the towns of that life where they have never heard of Virtus or Verecundia or Pietas. LECTOR. Then AUCTOR. Alas! alas! Dear Lector, in these houses there is no honest dust.
LECTOR. It does not seem to me that this part of your book is very entertaining. AUCTOR. I know that; but what am I to do? LECTOR. Why, what was the next point in the pilgrimage that was even tolerably noteworthy? AUCTOR. I suppose the Bridge of Boats. LECTOR. And how far on was that?
One must sleep at night. LECTOR. My brother often complains of insomnia. He is a policeman. AUCTOR. Indeed? It is a sad affliction. LECTOR. Yes, indeed. AUCTOR. Indeed, yes. LECTOR. I cannot go on like this. AUCTOR. There. That is just what I was saying.
Greek rhetoricians, in spite of Cato's opposition, had been steadily making way, and increasing the number of their pupils; but it was not until about 93 B.C. that PLOTIUS GALLUS taught the principles of Rhetoric in Latin. Quintilian says, "Latinos dicendi praeceptores extremis L. Crassi temporibus coepisse Cicero auctor est: quorum insignis maxime Plotius fuit."
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