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Updated: June 26, 2025
On his gorgeous sarcophagus you read the arrogant epitaph with which he revenged himself for the littleness of kings and courtiers: Quin, virtute mea junctum est diadema cucullo, Dum mihi regnanti patuit Gesperia." By a happy chance our visit was made in a holiday time, and the students were all away.
He'll write it." "But how does he know?" "Know it's the real thing? Oh, I'm sure when you see it you do know. Vera incessu patuit dea!" "It's you, Miss Erme, who are a dear for bringing me such news!" I went all lengths in my high spirits. "But fancy finding our goddess in the temple of Vishnu!
So he died, and she very imprudently married the master knacker, who had heard she was an heiress in her own right, and wanted to decorate his coat-of-arms with an escutcheon of pretence; and besides, his doctor had recommended a complete change " "Law, miss, how you do run on!" As she paced to and fro between the leaden statuettes pedes vestis defluxit ad imos Et vera incessu patuit dea,
Straight up to my mother she walked, a poor word to describe her sweet and stately motion, et vera incessu patuit dea, as the master has it, curtsied low and nobly to her and said, "Mistress Wheatman, I am a stranger in distress, and should have been in danger but for your son, who has served me and saved me as only a brave and courteous gentleman could."
They heard the proposals made one after another, and uninventive Manon's invariable answer "Serviteur; you are a day after the fair." The landlord chuckled and looked good-natured superiority at both his late advisers, with their traditional notions that men shun a woman "quae patuit," i.e. who has become the town talk.
You won't mind, will you, Mr. Morrison!" She nodded brightly to the old gentleman, to the girl who had slipped into her place, to the other man, and was off. The man she had left looked after her, as she trod with her long, light step beside the young man, and murmured, "Et vera incessu patuit dea." Molly moved a plate on the table with some vehemence.
"Well, sir, it was said of a good wife by the ancients, 'bene quae latuit, bene vixit, that is, she is the best wife that is least talked of: but here 'male quae patuit' were as near the mark. Therefore, an you bear the lass good-will, why not club purses with Denys and me and convey her safe home with a dowry? Then mayhap some rustical person in her own place may be brought to wife her."
"Incessu patuit Dea." The self-conquest of her Ascetics, the patience of her Martyrs, the irresistible determination of her Bishops, the joyous swing of her advance, both exalted and abashed me. I said to myself, "Look on this picture and on that;" I felt affection for my own Church, but not tenderness; I felt dismay at her prospects, anger and scorn at her do-nothing perplexity.
Among them, with that majesty that only a liner entering a harbour has, she went, progressed, had her moving English contains no word for such a motion "incessu patuit dea." A goddess entering fairyland, I thought; for the huddled beauty of these buildings and the still, silver expanse of the water seemed unreal.
"What! their upholsterer?" cried Phellion, "that distinguished woman, of whom one may truly say, 'Incessu patuit dea'; which in French we very inadequately render by the expression, 'bearing of a queen'?" "Excuse me," said Minard.
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