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After all, a little encouragement, in the shape of exemption from paying the duty on this collection, might have been expected, but it turned out otherwise; and after expending large sums in pursuit of natural history, on my return home I was doomed to pay for my success: Hic finis, Caroli fatorum, hic exitus illum, Sorte tulit!
In our times we learned Latin because our books were in Latin; now you study Latin a little but have no Latin books. On the other hand, your books are in Castilian and that language is not taught aetas parentum pejor avis tulit nos nequiores! as Horace said." With this quotation he moved away majestically, like a Roman emperor. The youths smiled at each other.
"Hanc rem aegre tulit Phoebe," as my old friend Livy would say. "Oh dear! oh dear! if he strays so far from us, he will be eaten up at nightfall by jackals, or lions, or something. One of you must go after him." "Me go, missy," said Ucatella zealously, pleased with an excuse for stretching her magnificent limbs. "Ay, but mayhap he will not come back with YOU: will he, Dick?"
Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci, Lectorem delectando, pariterque monendo ... Hor. I may cast my Readers under two general Divisions, the Mercurial and the Saturnine. The first are the gay Part of my Disciples, who require Speculations of Wit and Humour; the others are those of a more solemn and sober Turn, who find no Pleasure but in Papers of Morality and sound Sense.
The treatment of Phokion reminded the Greeks of that of Sokrates, as both the crime and the misfortune of the city in both cases was almost exactly the same. M. Cato in petitione præturæ, prælato Vatinio, repulsam tulit. Liv. Epit. cv. See also Val. Max. vii. 5, and Merivale's 'History of the Romans, vol. i. ch. ix. See vol. iii.
He may, indeed, utter one word of remonstrance against literary and commercial piracy, like that first great sufferer by anti-copyright, Mr. Virgilius Maro, of Mantua "Hos ego versiculos emi, tulit alter honores." Or, in other words, I pay for every line and letter of Maga, and lo! Mr Bathyllus Reprint, of New York, carries off the sesterces!
We shall remember how even Virgil had to write: 'Hos ego versiculos scripsi: tulit alter honores! And the veriest bumpkin knows the force of the adage about one's shaking the tree, for another to gather up the fruit. But Virgil was patient, and did well at the last; though the chronicles do not tell us how many pears ever came to the teeth of him that did the tree-shaking.
He was arrested very soon afterwards by the states' government in Antwerp, put to the torture, hanged and quartered. In troublous times like those, when honest men found it difficult to keep their heads upon their shoulders, rogues were apt to meet their deserts, unless they had the advantage of lofty lineage and elevated position. "Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic diadema."
He then, under pretence of adding some new ornament, still kept them from me; and at length presented them himself. 'Ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores. This gave him an introduction upon a certain footing to the Hotel de Luxembourg.
The text of "Of Captain Misson and His Crew" has been reproduced from the Henry E. Huntington Library's first edition copy of the second volume of A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates which appeared under the title The History of the Pyrates. Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci. Hor.
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