flebilior

Updated: May 20, 2025

Lord Clarendon was there, looking very ill, and on the 27th he died 'Multis ille flebilis occidit, nulli flebilior quam mihi.

John Knox Laughton - Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. : In Two Volumes. Volume II.

Nulli flebilior quam mihi! When earth covers him, not a better man will be left on its face. Tibi constabat. Ever the servant of Duty and of his God, and letting no man note in him a sign that he thought himself better than the ruck.... God bless you! Don't resign wait. On December 15th Reeve went to Paris alone. His Journal notes: 17th. Opera 'Aida, with the Comte de Paris and the Duc d'Aumale.

John Knox Laughton - Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. : In Two Volumes. Volume II.