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Updated: May 9, 2025
It proved that everything had been done according to law, simply by the fact that parliament was urged to make a new law by which everything that had been done would be illegal. It was designed to accomplish a great deal—to extinguish for ever the Cardinal Archbishop, and all the other newly-instituted bishops. It proved utterly futile—telum imbelle sine ictu.
Pius V. had not merely excommunicated her, which was a barren and ineffective threat, a telum imbelle sine ictu; he had also purported to depose her as a heretic, and to release her subjects from the duty of allegiance. Another Vicar of Christ, Gregory XIII., went farther. He intimated, not obscurely, that whosoever removed such a monster from the world would be doing God's service.
A similar connexion of meaning may be found in the Greek word 'belos, which corresponds to our 'telum, and which is derived from 'ballesthai, to throw, as we learn from Xenophon, who writes, 'they carried with them 'belei, namely spears, bows and arrows, slings, and large numbers of stones. 'Sicarius, or assassin, is derived from 'sica, a long steel knife.
A cause so good gives confidence: if there are plausible appearances against us there are proofs on our side, and I would dare to say to an adversary: Aspice, quam mage sit nostrum penetrabile telum.
'Telum, in fact, or 'weapon, is derived from the Greek 'telou, and so means anything thrown to a distance.
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