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Or a band of schoolboys and street urchins, playing hop-scotch, rose in a body and saluted him classically, with some cry in Latin: "Eia! eia! Claudius cum claudo!" But the insult generally passed unnoticed both by the priest and the bellringer. Quasimodo was too deaf to hear all these gracious things, and Claude was too dreamy. Dom Claude's fame had spread far and wide.
But, sure enough, the threatened punishment, by no means "pede claudo" followed in every case very accurately with the speed of lightning on the transgression; for Powers had cunningly contrived, preparing it all with his own hand, that a sharp electric shock should be communicated to each audacious hand that braved the prohibition.
He went off sadly to bed, and hardly once remembered, that he too would come in for certain punishment the next day. "Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede Poena claudo." After prayers the next morning Dr. Rowlands spoke to his boarders on the previous day's discovery, and in a few forcible vivid words set before them, the enormity of the offence.
Into the motives that filled him with a belief that he might inspire a Government, which had no policy, with one created by his own courage, confidence, and success, it would be impossible to enter, but it can be confidently asserted that, although they were drawn after him sed pede claudo to expend millions of treasure and thousands of lives, they were never inspired by his exhortations and example to form a definite policy as to the main point in the situation, viz., the defence of the Egyptian possessions.
"Sir," he responded, "you are a stranger, and I believe you say yourself that a portion of your life has been spent in Oriental countries, so you are not aware how human justice, so expeditious in barbarous countries, takes with us a prudent and well-studied course." "Oh, yes yes, I do, sir; it is the pede claudo of the ancients.
raro antecedentem scelestum deseruit pede Poena claudo. I paused by the window. In this there was no indiscretion; for a cold drizzle washed the panes, and the warmth of the apartment dimmed their inner surface. "Pede Poena claudo," my finger traced the words on the damp glass. A sudden clamour of the street-door bell sent me skipping back to the fire-place with my heart in my mouth.
Ouen's priory. "Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede Poena claudo." It was midday, and the sun was pouring the full power of his noontide beams on the wilderness of reeds and flags which overspread the southern side of the Dismal Swamp, reposing on the treacherous surface of bog, quagmire, and quicksand.
But how picturesque and perfect it would be if I moved across the ground in the symbolic attitude of kicking Bishop Berkeley! How complete an allegoric group; the great transcendentalist walking with his head among the stars, but behind him the avenging realist pede claudo, with uplifted foot.
And it were to be desired that this saying of Horace should be true in our eyes: Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo. Yet it often comes to pass also, though this perchance not the most often, That in the world's eyes Heaven is justified, and that one may say with Claudian: Abstulit hunc tandem Rufini poena tumultum, Absolvitque deos...
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