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He was made the vehicle of the effusions of worthless versifiers, and he was forced to cry out, "Woe is me! even the copyist fixes his verses upon me, and every one bestows on me his silly trifles." The application of these verses was alike appropriate to the life of the Pope, or to the reigns of Alexander VI., Julius II., and the one just beginning. "Me miserum!
Usque adeone mori miserum est? Say, is it then so sad a thing to die?
'Name not the little witch! interrupted Sosia, impatiently; 'she will be my ruin! And he forthwith imparted to Callias the history of the Air Demon, and the escape of the Thessalian. 'Hang thyself, then, unhappy Sosia! I am just charged from Arbaces with a message to thee; on no account art thou to suffer her, even for a moment, from that chamber! 'Me miserum! exclaimed the slave.
"Where the poet's lip and painter's hand Are most divine. Where earth and sky Are picture both and poetry; Of Italy " A Madame de Stael would have immortalized her as another Corrinne. Heu, me miserum! Where shall we find goose-quill cruel and grey enough to write her down wife of Jude Thornton Rush? "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Whom do not the words of Turnus move? Fugientem hoec terra videbit; Usque adeone mori miserum est?
The splendid cadence of the opening couplet Cynthia prima suis miserum me cepit ocellis Contactum nullis ante cupidinibus must have come on its readers with the shock of a new revelation. Nothing like it had ever been written in Latin before: itself and alone it assures a great future to the Latin elegiac.
"This is comme il faut," said I, looking round at the well filled table, and the sparkling spirits immersed in the ice-pails, "a genuine friendly dinner. It is very rarely that I dare entrust myself to such extempore hospitality miserum est aliena vivere quadra; a friendly dinner, a family meal, are things from which I fly with undisguised aversion.
We are also taught, that promotions atchiued by ambition are not permanent, and are so farre from procuring fame and renowne to the obteiners, that they turne them in the end to shame, infamie and reproch, after losse of life and effusion of bloud. Erigit & miserum facilè extinguítque superbum Iuppiter altifremus, cui celsum regia cœlum. Beckets death.
O MISERUM: 'O, wretched is that old man'. Cicero oftener joins O with the accusative than with the nominative: he rarely, if ever, uses the interjection with the vocative in direct address to persons. Lucretius, De Rerum Nat. 3, 417 et seq.; cf. also Caesar's argument at the trial of the Catilinian conspirators, Sall. Bell. DEDUCIT: cf. n. on 63. ATQUI: see n. on 6.
Landon of a Buddhist monastery, Nyen-de-kyl-Buk, where the inmates enter as little children and grow up with the prospect of being literally immured in a cave from which the light of day is excluded as well as the society of their fellow-men, there to spend the rest of their life till they rot. Horace may say: Jubeas miserum esse, libenter Quatenus id facit;
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