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The ancients, he thought, knew how to bear misfortune. Levius fit patientia Quidquid corrigere est nefas. As the words occurred to him he thought how much better equipped he was for the bitter trial, since had he not the certain hope of another life, and of meeting his beloved in the spaces of endless felicity?
XV. Namque absentia legati remoto metu, Britanni agitare inter se mala servitutis, conferre injurias et interpretando accendere: nihil profici patientia, nisi ut graviora, tanquam ex facili toleratibus, imperentur: singulos sibi olim reges fuisse, nunc binos imponi: e quibus legatus in sanguinem, procurator in bona saeviret.
Hic et bella gerebat ut adulescens, cum plane grandis esset, et Hannibalem iuveniliter exsultantem patientia sua molliebat; de quo praeclare familiaris noster Ennius: unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem; noenum rumores ponebat ante salutem; ergo plusque magisque viri nunc gloria claret. 11 Tarentum vero qua vigilantia, quo consilio recepit!
We have not, however, got a certificate of success yet." "Patientia fit levior ferendo! Have patience, man. Wait till we see the Counsellor!" He had scarcely uttered the last words when that gentleman entered. "Well, Counsellor," said the priest, "is it a hit?" "Pray what is your Christian name, Mr. O'Shaughnessy?" inquired the lawyer o! young Denis.
PATIENTIA: 'endurance', 'persistence'; it is not equivalent to our 'patience'. PRAECLARE: sc. dicit; cf. n. on 3. FAMILIARIS: see Introd. Att. 2, 19, 2; Ovid, Fast. 2, 241; Verg. Aen. 6, 846; Suet. Tib. 21. CUNCTANDO: Cf. Polybius 3, 105, 8. On Fabius' military policy consult Mommsen, Hist. of Rome, Bk. III. ch. 5. REM: here = rem publicam.
"Patientia fit melius," thought I, as Horace said, and Vincent would say; and in order to divert my thoughts from my situation, I turned them towards my diplomatic success with Lord Chester.
This is the kind of teaching which we find illustrated in the book of Valerius Maximus, which has already been alluded to, who takes some special virtue or fine quality as the subject of most of his chapters, fortitudo, patientia, abstinentia, moderatio, pietas erga parentes, amicitia, and so on, and illustrates them by examples and stories drawn mainly from Roman history, partly also from Greek.
Adieu! I will conclude like a pedant, 'Levius fit patientia quicquid corrigere est nefas. LONDON, April 16, 1759 MY DEAR FRIEND: With humble submission to you, I still say that if Prince Ferdinand can make a defensive campaign this year, he will have done a great deal, considering the great inequality of numbers.
"Patientia is the Latin for 'patience, my dear young lady. You are not a patient in so far as you are very impatient." "If you let me have a cigarette, then I will say 'Yes, you are right." "I know I am right, and there can be no question of your smoking now." "But I want to smoke. You are impolite," she said, obstinately kicking up her heel.
He beheld himself to be as the dog in the fable that had dropped the substance to snatch at a delusive shadow. He sought comfort in a line on the open page before him: "levius fit patientia quicquid corrigere est nefas." Sought it, but hardly found it.
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