facinora

Updated: May 23, 2025

Facinora ostendi dum punientur, flagitia autem abscondi debent." A sentence of Latin, as Eustace had before observed, had often much influence on the Abbot, because he understood it not fluently, and was ashamed to acknowledge his ignorance. On these terms they parted for the night. The next day, Abbot Boniface strictly interrogated Philip on the real cause of his disaster of the previous night.

Sir Walter Scott - The Monastery