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He was an intimate friend of the worthless C. Memmius, whom he extols in a manner creditable to his heart but not to his judgment. But he was no flatterer, nor was Memmius a patron. Poet and statesman lived on terms of perfect equality. The allusion "Nam neque nos agere hoc patriai tempore iniquo Possumus aequo animo, nec Memmi clara propago Talibus in rebus communi desse saluti,"

Cujus merito quis nos sacerdotes appellat: justitiam namque colimus, et boni et aequi notitiam profitemur, aequum ab iniquo separantes, licitum ab illicito discernentes,... veram, nisi fallor, philosophiam, non simulatam affectantes.... Juris praecepta sunt haec: honeste vivere, alterum non laedere, suum cuique tribuere." cf.

Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice; insomuch that Plato says, they undertake to cut off the hydra's head, who pretend to clear the law of all inconveniences: "Omne magnum exemplum habet aliquid ex iniquo, quod contra singulos utilitate publics rependitur," says Tacitus.

"Libera nos a malo ora pro nobis, peccatoribus ab hoste maligno defende me ab homine iniquo et doloso erue me peccator videbit et irascetur desiderium peccatorum peribit " came from the priest with torrent speed. "Jee-les-pee! Jee-les-pee!" roared a dozen throats above the half-way landing. Then came the stamp of many feet to the door. "Wait, men!" Hamilton's voice commanded.

Dundee, retreating before the forces of the Convention, is represented as musing over his camp-fire on the ingratitude of the Prince whose life he had once saved. "Tu vero, Arctoæ gentis prædo improbe, tanti Fons et origo mali, Nassovi, ingrate virorum, Immeritum quid me, nunc Cæsaris arma secutum, Prosequeris toties, et iniquo Marte fatiges?