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Updated: May 7, 2025
What was there in her aimless and useless life which made it so precious that she could not afford to fling it into the gutter, if need be, on the bare chance of enriching some fuller existence? OF all titles ever assumed by prince or potentate, the proudest is that of the Roman pontiffs: "Servus servorum Dei" "Servant of the servants of God."
Place Alexander ille Magnus beside Malcolm's friend Epictetus, ille servorum servus; take his crutch from the slave and set the hero upon his Bucephalus but set them alone and in a desert: which will prove the great man? which the unchangeable?
Cold and hunger, the torments of the poor in Europe, are absolutely unknown to them, and their condition contrasts most favourably with the "vassus" and the "servus" of our feudal times.
Hella came home yesterday; I am so glad; I greeted her with: Hail! but she said; "don't be silly," besides, it's unsuitable for an Austrian officer's daughter!!! Still, we won't quarrel about it after 2 months' separation, and Servus is very smart too though not so distinguished.
Hence the importance, the venerableness of all those mediæval hymns. But of none so much, to my mind, as of those words I have quoted from the Matins of the Most Holy Sacrament "O res mirabilis, manducat Dominum, Pauper, Servus et Humilis."
"Panis Angelicus fit panis hominum. O res mirabilis, manducat Dominum Pauper, Servus et Humilis." These words of the Matins of the Most Holy Sacrament I heard for the first time many years ago, to the beautiful and inappropriate music of Cherubini.
Of what benefit was Plato's existence to the republic? Of what assistance has the great Tracy Tupper been if men must still, despite all his proverbs, remain what they are? O curum hominibus! O imitatori! Servus pecum!" At this point the voice of Mr. Ferdinand remarked in the small of the Prophet's back, "Shall I set down the tea on the mat, sir, or "
Northcote, in his little volume on the catacombs, "without reading something of servus or libertus, libertis libertabusque posterisque eorum; and I believe the proportion in which they are found is about three out of every four.
However, when the bishop, growing more composed, remained still silent, he could not forbear offering him a trifle of consolation. 'Don't grieve so, Pendle! he said, laying his hand on the other's shoulder; 'it is not your fault that you are in this position. The bishop sighed, and murmured with a shake of his head, 'Omnis qui facit peccatum, servus est peccati!
In general usage the words villanus, nativus, servus, custumarius, and rusticus are synonymous, and the cotters belonged legally to the same servile class. The distinction between free tenants and villains, using this word, as is customary, to include all those who were legally in servitude, was not a very clearly marked one.
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