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Micat inter omnes, as Virgil sang of "the young Marcellus," his hero: she "glistened out before them all." Of course she was introduced to me. "Mr Lorton Miss Minnie Clyde." Now, at last, I had met her and knew her name! What a pretty name she had, too, as little Miss Pimpernell had said! Just in keeping with its owner.
A professor famous for his Latin verses, M. Lemaire, was so fired by his lyrical enthusiasm that he compared Marie Louise to another Mary, the Queen of Heaven. Of the two queens, one, he said, rules in Heaven; the other on earth: "Haec coelo regina micat; micat altera terris." The baptism of the King of Rome was celebrated with great pomp, Sunday, June 7, 1811, at Notre Dame.
But this is one. Spurina, a young man of Tuscany: "Qualis gemma micat, fulvum quae dividit aurum, Aut collo decus, aut cupiti: vel quale per artem Inclusum buxo aut Oricia terebintho Lucet ebur,"
'Micat inter omnes Julium sidus, velut inter ignes Luna minores. 'And like the Moon, the feebler fires among, Conspicuous shines the Julian star. FRANCIS. Horace, Odes, i. 12. 46. See ante, iii. 209. 'The little blood that creeps within his veins Is but just warmed in a hot fever's pains. DRYDEN. Juvenal, Satires, x. 217. Lunardi had made, on Sept. 15, the first balloon ascent in England. Gent.
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