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The young man, breathing quickly, did not speak. Perhaps his eyes were watching for an opening; at the least appearance of one he would have flung himself upon his enemy. "You do not choose. And yet, I will do it. In one word Go! Teque his, puer, eripe flammis!" He pointed to the door with a gesture tragic enough. "Go and live, for if you stay you die!
"It pleaseth me it ringeth in mine ears yea, most pleasantly. Proceed, the girl was as the Pyrrha of Horace "Quis multa gracillis te puer in rosa Perfusis liquidis urgit odoribus. Grate, Pyrrha sub antro?" "That's all high Dutch to me, master; but I'll go on if I can. My memory box be a little out of order. Let me see oh!
And, through the vehement desire of him and his mother: "Volta puer solvit, quae foemina voverat, Iphis." Myself passing by Vitry le Francois, saw a man the Bishop of Soissons had, in confirmation, called Germain, whom all the inhabitants of the place had known to be a girl till two-and-twenty years of age, called Mary.
Deteriorated from earlier youth though the beauty of his countenance might be, it was still undeniably handsome; and as force of muscle is beauty in itself in the eyes of young sporting men, so Jasper dazzled many a /gracilis puer/, who had the ambition to become an athlete, with the rare personal strength which, as if in the exuberance of animal spirits, he would sometimes condescend to display, by feats that astonished the curious and frightened the timid, such as bending a poker or horseshoe between hands elegantly white, nor unadorned with rings, or lifting the weight of Samuel Dolly by the waistband, and holding him at arm's length, with a playful bet of ten to one that he could stand by the fireplace and pitch the said Samuel Dolly out of the open window.
or the carol: Congaudeat turba fadelium! Natus est rex, Salvator omnium In Bethlehem. and we joined in; and at last all went together to see Ann to her home. Next evening there were more costly gifts, but albeit Puer natus was still to be heard in the streets, we no longer were moved to join in.
Avoid taking too many Precautions. This is the second period of life, and the one at which, properly speaking, infancy ends; for the words infans and puer are not synonymous. The first is included in the second, and means one who cannot speak: thus in Valerius Maximus we find the expression puerum infantem.
Horace's famous "Persicos odi, puer, apparatus," has a very close application in the "Persian stuff" with which British journalism has lately been flooded. How various his employments whom the world Calls idle! says Cowper. To describe the holiday amusement provided for the shah in England as having been a grand "variety entertainment" would feebly represent the mixture actually furnished him.
A noble emulation will always keep him in exercise, a reprimand will touch him to the quick, and honour will serve instead of a spur. We need not fear that such a scholar will ever give himself up to sullenness." Mihi ille detur puer, quem laus excitet, quem gloria juvet, qui virtus fleut. Hic erit alendus ambitu: hunc mordebit objurgetio; hunc honor excitabit; in hoc desidium nunquam verebor.
This is how Christmas was celebrated in some towns. First there appeared a young man half naked, with wings on his back; he recited the Ave Maria to a young girl who answered him fiat, and the angel kissed her on the mouth: then a child enclosed in a great cardboard cock cried, imitating the cock's cry: Puer natus est nobis.
Nec aliter fecit ac dixerat, filiamque speciosissimam cum fratre ephebo in cubiculo reliquit simulavitque se in templum ire ad vota nuncupanda. Eumolpus, qui tam frugi erat ut illi etiam ego puer viderer, non distulit puellam invitare ad pigiciaca sacra.
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