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Updated: June 12, 2025
Never was the truth of the old oft-quoted Latin proverb Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis so pathetically emphatic as it is to-day. The people are changing in their habits and modes of thought. They no longer take pleasure in the simple joys of their forefathers.
And did a British audience endure all this? They received it with plaudits, which, but for the rivalry of the carts and hackney coaches, might have disturbed the evening- prayers of the scanty week day congregation at St. Paul's cathedral. Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. A hymn is actually sung on the stage by the chorister boys!
A minute later Septimus Marvin was shaking him by the hand with a vague and uncertain but kindly grasp. "Sep came running to tell me that you were home again," he said, struggling out of his overcoat. "Yes yes. Home again to the old place. And little changed, I can see. Little changed, my boy. Tempora mutantur, eh? and we mutamur in illis. But you are the same." "Of course. Why should I change?
This dishonesty led them into difficulties. Natura mutatur, non nos mutamur. O, mutable Nature and immutable doctors! O, unstable Omniscience, and infallible Nescience! The former may err; the latter never in its own opinion.
"'It used not always to be Sir and Colonel Warrington, between me and your Excellency, I said. "He said, calmly, 'The times are altered. "'Et nos mutamur in illis, says I. 'Times and people are both changed. "'You had some business with me? he asked. "'Am I speaking to the Commander-in-Chief or to my old friend? I asked. "He looked at me gravely. 'Well, to both, sir, he said.
One of them, in order to put his Latin to the proof, had made him translate short passages from Dilectus and asked him whether it was correct to say: TEMPORA MUTANTUR NOS ET MUTAMUR IN ILLIS or TEMPORA MUTANTUR ET NOS MUTAMUR IN ILLIS. Another, a brisk old man, whom Mr Dedalus called Johnny Cashman, had covered him with confusion by asking him to say which were prettier, the Dublin girls or the Cork girls.
Reginald rebelled against the idea that they two could still be anything to one another than the friends they had once been; but all the while the old school saw came back into his mind that imposition sentence he had in his day written out hundreds of times without once thinking of its meaning: Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis.
Yet it did cause such uneasiness and was peremptorily checked. It was impossible then for a native-born Canadian, whether of English or French extraction, to look a home-appointed government official in the face. "Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis." See Duke de la Rochefoucault's Liancourt's travels through North America. On the 21st January, 1807, Mr.
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