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And for a space of twelve nights i.e., whilst the divines were waking him with hymns and psalms and canticles there was no night in Magh-inis, but angelic light there; and some say there was light in Magh-inis for the space of a year after Patrick's death, quia nulli adanti viri meritum declarandum accidisse dubium est, et ita non visa nox in tota ilia regione in tempore luctus Patricii, qualiter Ezechiae langenti in horologio Achaz demonstrato sanitatis indicio, sol per xv lineas reversus est, et sic sol contra Gabon, et luna contra vallem Achilon stetit.

The gaming-tables have constant visitors; there, thousands are daily and nightly lost and won; parties even sit down to try their luck round the outside of the door as well as in the room:— “Vestibulum ante ipsum primisque in faucibus aulæ Luctus et ultrices, posuere sedilia curæ.”

Uppon his shield hee bare a ball striken downe with a mans hand that it might mount The worde, Ferior vt efferar, I suffer my selfe to bee contemned because I will climbe. In middest of this his snowie curled top, rounde wrapped together, on the ascending of his creast sate a solitarie nightingale close encaged with a thorne at her breast, hauing this mot in her mouth, Luctus monumenta manebunt.

In place of the very words of Virgil, 'Ubi luctus et pavor et plurima mortis imago , he wrote 'Ubi luctus regnant et pavor. He introduced the word prorsus into the line 'Mortalibus prorsus non absit solatium, and after 'Hujus enim scripta evolve, he added 'Mentemque tantarum rerum capacem corpori caduco superstitem crede; which is quite applicable to Dr. Johnson himself . Mr.

Avarice, instigated by ladies and milliners, has looked with covetous eye on its downy and beautiful plumes; while ignorance and superstition have feared and hated the owl in all countries and all ages. In ancient Rome it was a bird of evil omen. Foedaque fit volucris venturi nuncia luctus, Ignavus bubo, dirum mortalibus omen.

Funera, sepulcra, luctus. Singularum gentium instituta: Galli, olim valida gens, in Germaniam transgressi, Helvetii, Boii: Aravisci, Osi, incertum genus: Germanicae originis populi Treveri, Nervii, Vangiones, Triboci, Nemetes, Ubii. 29. Batavi, Cattorum proles: Mattiaci: Decumates agri. 30, 31. Cattorum regio, habitus, disciplina militaris; vota, virtutis incentiva. 32.

In the other, which was in Latin, he made several alterations. In place of the very words of Virgil, Ubi luctus et pavor et plurima mortis imago, he wrote Ubi luctus regnant et pavor. Edin. Prof. Electus ipso Newtono suadente.

Delay would have been expensive without use, as the debt was too considerable for payment or bail: I, therefore, suffered myself to be immediately conducted to gaol. Vestibulum ante ipsum, primisque in faucibus Orci, Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia cureae: Pallentesque habitant morbi, tristisque senectus, Et metus, et malesuada fames, et turpis egestas. VIRG. AEn. vi. 273.

Ovid, nearly two thousand years ago, was extremely severe against the owl. In his Metamorphoses he says: "Foedaque fit volucris, venturi nuncia luctus, Ignavus bubo, dirum mortalibus omen." In his Fasti he openly accuses it of felony: "Nocte volant, puerosque petunt nutricis egentes." Lucan, too, has hit it hard: "Et laetae juranter aves, bubone sinistro:"

The gaming-tables have constant visitors: there thousands are daily and nightly lost and won parties even sit down to try their luck round the outside of the door as well as in the room: Vestibulum ante ipsum primisque in faucibus aulae Luctus et ultrices, posucre sedilia curae. About six or seven miles from Pernambuco stands a pretty little village called Monteiro.