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Or was it that they were books not laid up in the Church chest, but hidden away in obscure corners? They are Latin hexameters into which an internal rhyme has forced its way. The following, for example, are all 'leonine': Qui pingit florem non pingit floris odorem: Si quis det mannos, ne quaere in dentibus annos. Una avis in dextra melior quam quattuor extra.

But if one attends well to the difference between the two notes, and bears in mind, to guide one, such things as Virgil's 'moss-grown springs and grass softer than sleep: Muscosi fontes et somno mollior herba as his charming flower-gatherer, who Pallentes violas et summa papavera carpens Narcissum et florem jungit bene olentis anethi as his quinces and chestnuts:

As the fragment may interest our readers, we quote it: "Dum semibiulco savio Meum puellum savior, Dulcemque florem spiritus Duco ex aperto tramite; Animula aegra et saucia Cucurrit ad labias mihi, Rictumque in oris pervium Et labra pueri mollia, Rimata itineri transitus Ut transiliret, nititur.

But if one attends well to the difference between the two notes, and bears in mind, to guide one, such things as Virgil's "moss-grown springs and grass softer than sleep:" "Muscosi fontes et somno mollior herba " as his charming flower-gatherer, who "Pallentes violas et summa papavera carpens Narcissum et florem jungit bene olentis anethi " as his quinces and chestnuts:

But should a wise man be subject to grief, he may likewise be subject to anger; for as he is free from anger, he must likewise be free from grief. Who envies me the flower of my children? where the Latin is invidit florem. It may appear not good Latin, but it is very well put by Accius; for as video governs an accusative case, so it is more correct to say invideo florem than flori.