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It is addressed "Ad Guillielmus Strachæum." In it Campion tells Strachey that although he has very few verses to give to his "old comrade," the man "who rejoiced in and made many competent verses," he will always be dear to him. He ends by calling him "summus pieridem unicusque cultor." The poem concludes almost as it began: "Strachaeo, veteri meo sodali" To Strachey, my old comrade.
'CHAP. LXXII. Concerning snakes. 'There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island . At dinner we talked of another mode in the newspapers of giving modern characters in sentences from the classicks, and of the passage 'Pareus deorum cultor, et infrequens, Insanientis dum sapientiæ Consultus erro, nunc retrorsùm Vela dare, atque iterare cursus Cogor relictos :
Indeed, the line, "Pastor deorum cultor et infrequens," might have been directly inspired by your views on the keeping of Chapels. On the other hand, your contributions to our musical festivities had the true Aristophanes panache. I hear you are devoting yourself to literature, and I beg that you will avail yourself of the enclosed note, which is addressed to a personal friend of mine.
Parcus Deorum cultor you bowed not often, it may be, in the temples of the state religion and before the statues of the great Olympians; but the pure and pious worship of rustic tradition, the faith handed down by the homely elders, with that you never broke. Clean hands and a pure heart, these, with a sacred cake and shining grains of salt, you could offer to the Lares.
As for good women these, my worthy reader, are different from us the nature of these is to love, and to do kind offices, and devise untiring charities: so I would have you to know, that, though Mr. Pendennis was parcus suorum cultor et infrequens, Mrs.
One finds there almost every thing but religion. SEWARD. 'He speaks of his returning to it, in his Ode Parcus Deorum cultor et infrequens. JOHNSON. 'Sir, he was not in earnest: this was merely poetical. BOSWELL. 'There are, I am afraid, many people who have no religion at all. SEWARD. 'And sensible people too. JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, not sensible in that respect.
One finds there almost every thing but religion. SEWARD. 'He speaks of his returning to it, in his Ode Parcus Deorum cultor et infrequens JOHNSON. 'Sir, he was not in earnest: this was merely poetical. BOSWELL. 'There are, I am afraid, many people who have no religion at all. SEWARD. 'And sensible people too. JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, not sensible in that respect.
Quum talos ori, tum quod sus fudit odori, Digno qui celebrat cultor honore ferat. He who has lived by the pig is chewed to death by the pig and the limbs which were called blessed have become pigs' excrement. May those who wish to honor him carry to their mouths his heels, which the pig has poured forth in stench.
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