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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Et timeo, dum discussio venerit, atque venerit ira!" Once more the great bell tolled heavily, and its discordant tone seemed to tear his brain.
That is what makes us all so restless. If we could only find a spot where we could sit down, content to let the world go by, away from the Sunday newspapers and the chronicles of an uneasy society, we think we should be happy. Perhaps such a place is Coronado Beach that semi-tropical flower-garden by the sea. Perhaps another is the Timeo Terrace at Taormina.
But I have hopes of M. le Marquis." "Hopes of what?" "That he will make what reparation lies in his power. Provide for the widow and the orphans. Why else should he desire to hear me further?" "Unusual condescension," said Andre-Louis, and quoted "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes." "Why?" asked Philippe. "Let us go and discover unless you consider that I shall be in the way."
He might have quoted from the Latin poet in regard to this favor from Marie Antoinette, whose faction in music, among other names, was known as the Greek party, "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes." * * I fear the Greeks, though offering gifts.
That is what makes us all so restless. If we could only find a spot where we could sit down, content to let the world go by, away from the Sunday newspapers and the chronicles of an uneasy society, we think we should be happy. Perhaps such a place is Coronado Beach that semi-tropical flower-garden by the sea. Perhaps another is the Timeo Terrace at Taormina.
This is an implacable application of the maxim "timeo danaos et dona ferentes" by folks who do not understand Latin and who ignore the existence of the Greeks but who know thoroughly well their stranger neighbours. It is therefore vain to seek among the Sakais those poetical metaphors and that flowery, figurative style of speech which is attributed by us to all Orientals without distinction.
I wonder, as I go down to my room in the Casa Timeo, what was the past of this silent town, now so shrunken from its ancient limits; and who, I ask myself, Timeo? I thought when I first saw the inaccessibility of this mountain-keep that I should have no walks except upon the carriage road; but I find there are paths innumerable.
"Timeo Danaos et dona ferrentes. "The Greeks I fear, e'en in the gifts they bear." Hence Red Jacket began to look unfavorably on the attempts that had been made to civilize the Indian. He scorned to use the white man's axe, or hoe, or any implement of husbandry. He would not even use his language.
I would have been more pleased that that but unfortunately it's only a swoon. Non timeo mortem in catre sed super espaldonem Bagumbayanis. Get some water!" "Don't die!" sobbed the wife. "Don't die, for they'll come and arrest you! Ay, if you die and the soldiers come, ay, ay!" The learned cousin rubbed the victim's face with water until he recovered consciousness. "Come, don't cry.
Well may one suspect "the gifts of an enemy!" as the student might have cited: "Timeo danaos," etc.
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